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Mark Kelly: “NASA's budget is less than 1% of the federal budget.”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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Sen. Mark Kelly on Artemis II: What astronauts see beyond the moon

Published | Video Starts at 04:28

And there is, you know, personal risk to the crew in going on this kind of mission. Right. But they get that. There is also tremendous upside for us as a country. Yeah, these missions are expensive, but NASA's budget is less than 1% of the federal budget. It is a good investment in the future of our country. The innovation and the invention that we get out of doing hard things in space, there's a huge return on that investment. (04:28–04:33)

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Asserts that NASA's budget is less than 1% of the federal budget.

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