NASA is part of the military-industrial complex.

See the first link joering2 posted. If you look at the top 10 defense contractors you'll find that several of them are also Nasa contractors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NASA_contractors

That's my point, I want as much of the "let's fund the military-industrial complex" money as possible to go to NASA. Right now they're struggling on funding.

It seems like NASA is always "struggling" to get funding, when in reality, there have been very few years when their budget wasn't higher than the previous year[0], even when taking inflation into account.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

And yet there are still science programs canceled half way through development.