Thierry wrote in message ...
Your opinion 'd be welcome.
There is a French magazine titled "L'internaute magazine" (magazine of
internet users) that provides for a while a poll dealing with the interest
or not to invest in the US space program
http://questionnaire.linternaute.com.../23/index.html

A 9/2006 U.S. Poll by Gallop - NASA sponsored -
"The new survey - the last of a three-part series sponsored by the industry
group the Coalition for Space Exploration - found that more than two-thirds
of Americans polled support NASA's stepping-stone approach to returning
astronauts to the Moon, provided the effort's cost does not exceed more than
one percent of the federal budget."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200609...rationvisi on

A 1/2004 U.S. Poll - by Associated Press -
"Asked whether they favored the United States expanding the space program
the way Bush proposes, people were evenly split, with 48 percent favoring
the idea and the same number opposing it, according to the poll conducted
for the AP by Ipsos-Public Affairs."
"However, given the choice of spending money on programs like education and
health care or on space research, 55 percent said they wanted domestic
programs."
"Just over half of Democrats' opposed the plan by "the United States." Once
it was identified as a 'Bush administration' plan, Democrats opposed it by a
2-to-1 margin."
http://www.space.com/news/ap_spacepoll_040112.html

Thierry, sounds like the French are not that much different from Americans.

I do not speak French, so I am not sure what the French poll is asking:
1) Do Americans invest too much in their own space program?
2) Should the French invest in the American space program?

Considering the (legitimate) widespread condemnation of the Bush
Administration over the Iraq war, how do you separate distain for the Bush
administration from a reduced support from the U.S. space program?

- Canopus56

P.S. - A NASA bibliography of public opinion studies
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/hqlibr...rs/opinion.htm

P.P.S. - ". . . provided the effort's cost does not exceed more than one
percent of the federal budget."
From: http://www.census.gov/compendia/stat...es/06s0462.xls

NASA's 2005 budget as percent of total U.S. Budget in billions $US: 15.4
/ 2479.4 = 0.6%
NASA's 1990 budget as a precent of total U.S. Buget in billions $US: 12.4 /
1253.1 = 0.9%

I haven't been able to access the 2007 Whitehouse budget for a 2007
estimate, because I am using a dail-up modem.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/