Neil deGrasse Tyson bemoans that “no one is dreaming about tomorrow anymore.” At some point, “you gotta look up.” He reminds us that NASA enables our dreams: “The most powerful agency on the dreams of a nation is currently underfunded to do what it needs to do. . . . How much would you pay for the universe?”

NASA now runs off of .58% of the national budget. Compare this to the 1960s, when a full 5% of the national budget was allocated to NASA. Compare the NASA budget to the money we are wasting on our military adventures and it’s intensely depressing.