As a percentage of the federal budget, Old Row Shop The Shake And Bake Pocket T Shirt budget peaked in 1966, immediately saw a ~20% decrease within four years, and it’s been downhill ever since, save for a bump in the early nineties. Under Nixon, ambitious post-Apollo plans were killed and the STS (Space Transport System; aka, the Space Shuttle) wound up becoming a sort of last-ditch option to preserve manned spaceflight. It’s been a battle ever since to fund NASA’s missions for a number of reasons.
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