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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huge waste of money.[/quote]

Again and again people **vastly** overestimate the cost of these missions and of NASA in general.
The FY26 budget for NASA (not Artemis, but all of NASA) is 24.4 Billion.  It is less than half of a percent of the Federal budget. Which means everything else we do takes up over 99.5% of your tax dollars.
For comparison, the **supplemental** budget for ICE is 74 billion, on top of their 10+ billion annual budget.

For less than half a percent of your federal tax dollars, we can continue to explore the universe, to start to understand dark matter and dark energy, to study solar energy patterns, to look back on Earth and study the oceans and atmosphere, to look out into space and see the very beginnings of the universe, all while providing some of the best stable stem jobs and some of the very few high-tech manufacturing jobs left in the country.

"Footprints and flags" are a small part of what NASA does and as a standalone mission it doens't change the world. But as part of our ongoing exploration they're a critical next step.
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We don't need to send men to do it. Men are fragile and temperamental beings. [/quote]

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