Every year billions upon billions of taxpayers’ dollars are invested into NASA, and the overall benefits of the organization are not apparent to the average person. The immense masses of money that are consumed by NASA don’t seem to be justified by their findings and such discoveries do not directly correlate to us on earth, nor does it improve our lives. The priorities of the government can be questioned when over 10 billion dollars are poured into NASA’s funding each year while poverty and crime overwhelm the country and the nation’s massive debt increases by the second. Therefore the budget that NASA receives needs to decrease as the needs of the country increase and it is imperative that the government puts into perspective what is really important.