Michelle Thaller

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · Running Out of Matter with Michelle Thaller · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

They do it all for under $6 billion a year.

I mean, that's a nothing burger when it comes to a budget.

I mean, we get so much innovation.

You can demonstrate, we've had economists do studies that you get two, three times the economic advancement of money put into science research.

Putting people in orbit, of course, has to be more expensive because you need to be a lot more careful when there are human lives on stake.

What you can do for the cheap, I mean, some of the missions that blow me away, you know, I mean, basic physics, how do neutron stars work nicer?

That's actually on the space station, but it's a small thing, just a couple hundred million dollars.

I mean, these little budget items, you know, James Webb, of course, is a bigger one, but that was over like 20 years and employed, again, tens of thousands of people.

You know, these are tremendously great value for the money.

I mean, NIH is a whole other story.

I mean, honestly, that's even more worth saving than NASA.

I mean, as much as I am a huge NASA and space fan, I mean, do not mess with the NIH.

Good Lord.

I mean, we need to keep that research going, the cancer research, the Alzheimer's research.

I mean, again, Center for Disease Control, things like that.

Oh, my God, do we need those?

So, yeah, and remember, I mean, for $30 billion, you're still talking about the whole budget of NASA, and the human space program is the big chunk of that.

All the earth science, all the climate science, all the weather satellites, you know, all the monitoring the sun, all the exploring the universe.

And all the space telescopes are in the science budget.

All the space telescopes.

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