[OC] Percent annual change in NASA’s proposed budgets, 1960 – 2026

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1. Now overlap it with Republican presidencies: Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Trump, arguably the worst modern-day presidents for the American people, it’s as if they wouldn’t care about science and research at all.

2. I’m pro NASA but this latest dip might be proportionate to the immediately preceding increases.

   Maybe % of GDP or something would help answer that?

3. Im usually not a fan of 2 axis charts but here I would really appreciate the actual annual funding (potentially even inflation adjusted). It’s hard for me to really get a grasp of the scale of the budget additions/cuts

4. This continues to depress me when compared to the administration during the moon landing era.

   Everyone seemed to be on the same page about space travel and supporting it wasn’t nearly as political as today.

   The tremendous difference with this administration is staggering and really highlights the vast change in values from then to now.

5. The easiest way to include administrations (Republican vs Democrat) is to encode it with color in the bars. Right now the colors are just highlighting positive and negative that can be inferred from the y axis. Another way I’ve tried doing this is with geom_rect() in ggplot to put a soft blue and red etc. in the back. I don’t know what the equivalent is in python. I’ve done this with water data in the foreground and droughts (water year types) in the background. It works really well and drives the message home.

6. Gotta pay for the police state and tax cuts for the wealthy somehow.

7. Bane voice: “Do you feel great again?”

8. Space capabilities extend to more organizations now than in 60s. I know they do different things, but I would think NASA was responsible for a lot of what the Space Force, previously Space Command, is currently responsible for.
   Of, course it would still be great if we could increase NASA’s funding as the money is probably allocated better there.

9. This explains why it takes NASA 2 decades to make a new rocket system. Flat budgets are great for jobs projects but terrible for development. Most development is front loaded, while operations are more constant. When you have a flat budget your development gets inefficiently stretched out, so in the end it costs more and takes way longer to get done. That’s why we went to the moon in 10 years.

10. Good thing the USA administration isn’t planning a large expansion of space based missile defense and space explora… Ohhhhhh….

11. This isn’t where I would cut the federal budget. But, frankly, I’m happier with this approach — Trump proposing a budget and then Congress either approving or rejecting the budget — than I am with just cutting spending despite its appropriation by Congress, which is what Trump has been doing. Now, if only that budget didn’t blow up the national debt even more.

    Somebody’s ox is has to be gored. Every dime spent by the Federal Government is important to somebody, and they all have reasons why their ox is too important. But, it’s abundantly clear that the Feds cannot continue to spend $1T+ more than they take in. If that’s the deficit in good times, what happens in bad times?

    The Republicans like to pretend that they’re the party of fiscal prudence. But, every time they get power, they cut taxes claiming that they’ll be paid for by the resulting growth, but that never happens. The Democrats, conversely, will be happy to increase taxes, but will increase spending by more than that tax revenue from those increases. They both make the problem worse, just in different directions: republicans decrease revenue, democrats increase costs.

12. This makes me a Sad Panda

13. Displaying all the gouvernments political leaning over this graph would have been really interesting

14. Elect clowns expect a circus. And yes, Republicans are clowns.

15. With Elon and Donald falling out this might change. There is no more reason for Republicans to boost Space X.

16. Soon 47 will be unveiling our new Leach Health program.

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