The Pros And Cons Of NASA

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For decades NASA has lived up to its reputation as a highly influential government organization. However, with the retirement of its own shuttle program over budget concerns, NASA’s astronauts have had to join forces with the Russian Space Agency for a price of $70 million a seat to travel up to the International Space Station (ISS). As a result, there have been tensions between the two countries as they compete over being the best at developing space technology (Hagle, 2014, para.1). Thus, NASA has to seek other alternatives to fund future projects keeping in mind the budget constraints by the U.S. government as well as competition from other countries. As mentioned in the previous section, NASA has a number of projects lined up for the next