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As you can see in this chart, Nasa today takes up just .5% of the Federal Budget, in 1966 it was 4.5% or 9 times higher. If NASA's budget had been held constant as a percent of the budget, what would they be able to do with that money? Would we have gotten a man on mars by 1990?