Right, NASA dosent spend alot :

In the year-by-year breakdown listed below, the total amounts (in nominal dollars) that NASA has been budgeted from 1958 to 2011 amounts to $526.18 billion dollars—an average of $9.7 billion per year. By way of comparison, total spending over this period by the National Science Foundation was roughly one-fourth of NASA's expenditures: $101.5 billion, or $2 billion a year. NASA's FY 2011 budget of $18.4 billion represents about 0.5% of the $3.4 trillion United States federal budget during the year, or about 35% of total spending on academic scientific research in the United States.
According to the Office of Management and Budget and the Air Force Almanac, when measured in real terms (adjusted for inflation), the figure is $790.0 billion, or an average of $15.818 billion dollars per year over its fifty year history.


"Space exploration isn't just a "cool toy", it's the future of the human race" ARE YOU SERIOUS? Lay off the space dust!!! And believe me, the only way mars ever COULD support life is if NASA could figure out how to hook a chain to it and place it in orbit behind Earth.
Other than satalite radio and GPS's I cant really think of much good that has come out of it compaired to the money (as mentioned above) that has been dished into it.
And your last paragraph,,,,,,, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA apples to oranges.
spooky