re: #15 albusteve

the scope is dramatically larger with military R/D and involves far more waste and lobbying that lines the pockets of huge numbers of people…NASA is a direct expenditure into a govt agency almost entirely involved with research, with no profits to fight to the death over

Thank you for explaining your position and now I agree that it would be a mistake to equate military budget with NASA budget… and I also agree with you that this doesn’t mean we should cut the budget for the telescope.