Annuals Quote by Robert Ballard

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

— Robert Ballard

“Many people object to “wasting money in space” yet have no idea how much is actually spent on space exploration. The CSA’s budget, for…

— Chris Hadfield

In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We need to be very thoughtful about how we propose to spend the money that NASA does have for space exploration. And we need…

— Heidi Hammel

Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA spend in one year what NOAA will spend in 1600 years? Why are we looking…

— Robert Ballard

We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't think I could advocate for increasing NASA's budget by a factor of two or ten, because I want us to have good…

— Heidi Hammel

Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

By the way, how much does NASA cost? It's half a penny on a dollar. Did you know that? ... The most powerful agency…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money…

— Ian Bremmer

If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing…

— Walter Lang

The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson