Where are the websites with charts showing...

.... how little of the U.S. Federal budget is spent on NASA compared to
other expenditures.

I'm looking for tiny little slivers of pie slices, and anecdotal
comparisons like JFK's, "The amount of money spent on cigarettes is less
than ...etc."

In article , Dances with Shelves wrote:
... how little of the U.S. Federal budget is spent on NASA compared to
other expenditures.

I'm looking for tiny little slivers of pie slices, and anecdotal
comparisons like JFK's, "The amount of money spent on cigarettes is less
than ...etc."

It's surprisingly easy to generate one, with any handy graphing program
and many handy spreadsheet ones.

Total federal outlays = $2,157,637m in 2003.
NASA budget = $ 14,552m in 2003.

or around two-thirds of a percent; ~2.5 degrees of a pie chart. About
half of Homeland Security, whatever that covers now, a quarter of
Transportation, three-quarters of Energy...

(The NASA figures disagree by about $.5bn, but that's not too
significant proportionally speaking - let's just say $15bn, it's a nice
round figure)

About a billion of that is definitely non-space stuff, and about half is
attributed by NASA to manned spaceflight. The nation spends maybe
..15-.20% of the national budget on STS, as much as .25% on STS & ISS.

Were these the sort of number you're looking for? Not difficult to
find...

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-Andrew Gray

Andrew Gray wrote in message ...
In article , Dances with Shelves wrote:
... how little of the U.S. Federal budget is spent on NASA compared to
other expenditures.

I'm looking for tiny little slivers of pie slices, and anecdotal
comparisons like JFK's, "The amount of money spent on cigarettes is less
than ...etc."

It's surprisingly easy to generate one, with any handy graphing program
and many handy spreadsheet ones.

Total federal outlays = $2,157,637m in 2003.
NASA budget = $ 14,552m in 2003.

or around two-thirds of a percent; ~2.5 degrees of a pie chart. About
half of Homeland Security, whatever that covers now, a quarter of
Transportation, three-quarters of Energy...

(The NASA figures disagree by about $.5bn, but that's not too
significant proportionally speaking - let's just say $15bn, it's a nice
round figure)

About a billion of that is definitely non-space stuff, and about half is
attributed by NASA to manned spaceflight. The nation spends maybe
.15-.20% of the national budget on STS, as much as .25% on STS & ISS.

Were these the sort of number you're looking for? Not difficult to
find...


I'm interested in finding Historical Data too, like from '58 to
present, I was able to find the present or '03 data. (Found it in the
Congression Quarterly Al., but my library does not have any for any
other years) Actually I would love a breakdown on the total Federal
Budget by agency (Defence, Energy, Health, etc) any good pointers to
this specific data?


Space Cadet

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In article , Space Cadet wrote:

I'm interested in finding Historical Data too, like from '58 to
present, I was able to find the present or '03 data. (Found it in the
Congression Quarterly Al., but my library does not have any for any
other years) Actually I would love a breakdown on the total Federal
Budget by agency (Defence, Energy, Health, etc) any good pointers to
this specific data?

It's really not hard to find.

Google: 'us federal budget'

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/index.html

Browse the '05 budget, spreadsheets/historical tables, and there you
have it. 4.1 & 4.2, though it only goes from 1962.

Moving back slightly, http://www.richardb.us/nasa.html is what you're
looking for; again, not too long to find it...

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-Andrew Gray

On 20 Feb 2004 22:17:17 GMT, in a place far, far away, Andrew Gray
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

Were these the sort of number you're looking for? Not difficult to
find...

Not that they're particularly useful, or relevant to the debate.

In article , Rand Simberg wrote:
On 20 Feb 2004 22:17:17 GMT, in a place far, far away, Andrew Gray
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

Were these the sort of number you're looking for? Not difficult to
find...

Not that they're particularly useful, or relevant to the debate.

[shrug] He didn't ask for analysis...

--
-Andrew Gray