So you may be asking yourself, why should we fund NASA if all they are doing is spending our money in space and not down here on Earth. Well did you know that most of NASA’s missions are meant to help Earth? One of these Missions is called SMAP or Soil Moisture Active Passive. This Mission is an orbiting observatory that measures the amount of water in the top 5 cm (2 inches) of soil everywhere on Earth’s surface. SMAP is designed to measure soil moisture over a three-year period, every 2-3 days. This permits changes, around the world, to be observed over time scales ranging from major storms to repeated measurements of changes over the seasons. Soil moisture information is key to understanding the flows of water and heat energy between the surface and atmosphere that impact weather and climate. Currently, we know little about soil moisture variability at either regional or global scales. Frequent and reliable soil moisture measurements from SMAP will help improve the predictive capability of weather and climate models. SMAP is just one of these missions that “we are wasting our money on.”
NASA is not a waste of our money. NASA has not only benefited American history, but it also helped us invent many new technologies, research what's beyond Earth, and start sending humans out of Earth again. NASA has a lot of potential to help the human species. And, for the people that say NASA is destroying our economy, NASA has actually helped the U.S economy, more than it has hurt it. For every one dollar put into NASA, seven to ten return back to the economy.NASA’s research has also helped the fight against cancer. NASA’s weather satellites have helped warn us against natural disasters. NASA has also helped the agriculture with missions like SMAP. NASA overall is very important to the human race. Without NASA, who knows where we would be today.