Most Americans Would Rather NASA Focus on Deflecting Asteroids Than Going to the Moon
by the Pew Research Center gauged people’s views of space exploration and their attitude towards NASA, private space companies, and the role of the U.S. as a leader in space. Although the majority of the people surveyed thought it was important for the U.S. to maintain its global leadership role in space exploration, very few actually support NASA’s endeavors to return to the Moon, send astronauts to Mars, or continue to conduct scientific research.
Instead, NASA is currently focused on its Artemis program to send astronauts to the Moon and future plans to land humans on Mars for the first time. In its, NASA allocated $8.1 billion from the $27.2 billion budget request towards the Artemis program, a slight bump from last year’s $7.5 billion. NASA also wants to further develop its Moon to Mars program, a proposed idea to use the Moon as a testbed to eventually land humans on Mars.
The U.S. public, however, does not seem to be in tune with NASA’s priorities. Only 12% of those surveyed believe that sending astronauts to the Moon should be a priority for NASA while 11% said the same about sending astronauts to explore Mars.The Pew Research Center conducted a similar survey in 2018, in which monitoring the Earth’s climate system ranked first as NASA’s top priority.
Still, the public’s general attitude towards NASA remains positive, with 65% percent saying that the space agency has a critical role to play even as the role of private space companies continues to grow. Those surveyed also had a positive attitude towards private space companies, with 47% agreeing that the companies are doing a mostly good job in contributing to space exploration.The survey also found that more than half of the U.S.
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