Argument
Government Funding for the Space Program
Over the past 20 years the United States space program have seen many changes. The first of them being a large interest from private sectors. Companies such as space X, Google, Virgin Galactic, and Xcor aerospace had come into the mix, due to the crash of the United States economy making every taxpaying dollars required to go further in assisting citizens the United States and the death of the space shuttle program. Privatized companies have now been able to accomplish double the about of missions for less amount of money than NASA and other government-funded space programs. The United States space program should become more privatized to save taxpayers money, the companies and private sectors to become more efficient in their missions while being eco-friendly and opening up many more jobs to help improve the economy.
Currently the United States government spends close to $57 billion a year in funding for its space programs. According to MBJ, S. (n.d) “The measure recommends $19.4 billion for NASA, which amounts to a $1.6 billion increase above FY2012 funding. The increase is primarily due to shifting the NOAA satellite program to NASA”. They fund NASA and the United States Air Force space programs. They also lend aid to some private sector companies in helping to develop more efficient ways to travel from the surface of the earth to outer orbit. Just in this year alone NASA seeks another 17 billion which is a 5.7 increase to explore planets such as Mars that left no aid to the jobless starving people, who are funding these experimentations.
The private sector space programs are becoming more efficient and costing taxpayers little to nothing to achieve more results than from the government’s space programs. Companies such as space X have learned to make the most out of their programs by charging people to take trips to space conducting the same research that NASA scientists would perform while turning a profit.
Over the past 20 years the United States space program have seen many changes. The first of them being a large interest from private sectors. Companies such as space X, Google, Virgin Galactic, and Xcor aerospace had come into the mix, due to the crash of the United States economy making every taxpaying dollars required to go further in assisting citizens the United States and the death of the space shuttle program. Privatized companies have now been able to accomplish double the about of missions for less amount of money than NASA and other government-funded space programs. The United States space program should become more privatized to save taxpayers money, the companies and private sectors to become more efficient in their missions while being eco-friendly and opening up many more jobs to help improve the economy.
Currently the United States government spends close to $57 billion a year in funding for its space programs. According to MBJ, S. (n.d) “The measure recommends $19.4 billion for NASA, which amounts to a $1.6 billion increase above FY2012 funding. The increase is primarily due to shifting the NOAA satellite program to NASA”. They fund NASA and the United States Air Force space programs. They also lend aid to some private sector companies in helping to develop more efficient ways to travel from the surface of the earth to outer orbit. Just in this year alone NASA seeks another 17 billion which is a 5.7 increase to explore planets such as Mars that left no aid to the jobless starving people, who are funding these experimentations.
The private sector space programs are becoming more efficient and costing taxpayers little to nothing to achieve more results than from the government’s space programs. Companies such as space X have learned to make the most out of their programs by charging people to take trips to space conducting the same research that NASA scientists would perform while turning a profit.
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