> NASA's 25 billion dollar budget for 2025 was a paltry ~.04% of the total government budget.
I'm sorry, I think you have a math or data error here. The US government budget for 2025 was not $62.5 trillion dollars.
Yea, they where off by a factor of 10, so 0.4%.
Yea, they where off by a factor of 10, so 0.4%.