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StarTalk Podcast: Let’s Make America Smart Again – The Future of NASA
StarTalk·Feb 7, 2020
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Basic research is valuable because its potential applications are often impossible to predict when the research is first conducted.
“The nature of basic research is you can't tell where it's gonna go.”
StarTalk · Jul 2019 · 2 episodes · 928K views on this topic
Government investment in science and technology is a high-return strategy that is critical for American economic competitiveness.
“The best return on investment for a tax payer dollar, one of the best ones you could get in government investments is in things like The National Institute of Health, in such things investing in science.”
StarTalk · Jul 2019 · 1 episode · 780K views on this topicES
A small increase in NASA's federal budget share would significantly accelerate space exploration goals like human missions to Mars.
“I would say let's go wild and make NASA 0.6 percent of the federal budget and that would be a huge amount of money 50% increase yeah a huge amount of money for NASA but really not that still that much of the federal budget”
StarTalk · Feb 2020 · 1 episode · 148K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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