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I believe the question is a what-if? What if the US government doubled the NASA budget overnight? Okay, that's not likely to happen, but what if? How would you prioritize spending more money, if you had it?

And, yes, it's a fantasy question, but I don't view it as a complete waste of time to answer it---because NASA had far more money in real dollars during the 1960s. True, the political climate has changed dramatically. But if it changed again, in a way that benefited NASA: what would you do that you can't do now?

Hi Ms. Garver. I have a question about the recent decision to immediately cut all NASA-funded STEM education and public outreach in response to the US government sequestion. Given that EPO is a fraction of the money NASA spends, yet is the primary method in which the US public connects with the overarching NASA mission, I was wondering how/why this decision was arrived at?

And now that a budget has been passed, is there any hope for this decision to be reversed?

So it wasn't sequestration motivated, per se, despite the wording of the memo?

http://spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=43636

And does that imply that NASA will entirely lose its outreach and education function to, say, the Smithsonian? Will the Smithsonian actually replace the jobs currently being cut?

People really love the NASA-related websites, for example. Is all that infrastructure going to go away, or simply shift oversight?