I support the NASA space effort but the problem that I have with it is that takes up so much of the total NASA budget.
In my other life, I was a member of an industry advisory committee to NASA Aeronautics(the first A in NASA) and the Aeronautics Branch recieved less than 6% of the NASA budget and had to really fight for that. The other 94+% went to the Space branch. The argument was that , A) the taxpayer is very much for the Shuttle, space flight, etc, and B) the aviation industry can do pay for there own advanced research, or use military research. Well the military stuf is often too costly to pay it's way onto a non-military airplane and the non-space and non military avaiation industry provides more jobs that the space effort and military avaition and was the single biggest contibutor to helping the to reduce the balance of payments in the export markets for many years.(It still may be that way but I don't follow it anymore.) I'd like to see a little more balance in the Aronautics budget, maybe to 8-10%, but it won't happen because the average person is not that enamored by this. The major competitor to the US aviation indusry is EADS of which Airbus is a part and France, Germany, England, Italy, Spain, etc provide direct support to new airplane development program, plus provide research support also. So that's my opinion on this subject for wahatever it's worth.
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