Do they have a point?
and are way more interested in protecting our planet from killer asteroids. Which, to be real, probably makes a good deal of sense.
Polling more than 10,000 respondents, Pew found that a whopping 60 percent of Americans said their top priority for NASA was to "monitor asteroids [and] other objects that could hit the Earth," with roughly half of those 10,000 adding that "monitor[ing] key parts of the Earth's climate system" was among their top desired goals for the agency.
Compared to the 12 percent of respondents who said their top priority is sending astronauts to the Moon and the 11 percent who said they're most interested in seeing astronauts on Mars, the division between the taxpayers' wishlist and what NASA is actually doing is pretty severe.
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