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From: hoford@grasp.cis.upenn.edu (John D Hoford)
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Subject: Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics
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Date: 12 Jul 90 23:37:32 GMT
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In article <9881@pt.cs.cmu.edu> gerry@cive.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
>Someone said that NASA spends a lot on Robotics.  But what is a lot?
>We have a large NASA contract, but it is less than $2M/year.  The
>total NASA budget for Robotics is probably less than $50M/year (does
>anyone have the real numbers?)  The estimate (and keep in mind that
>all NASA estimates always fall FAR short of reality) is $30B.  This 
>is enough funding to sponser all Robotics related work for most of
>a century! 
>

But what percent of the "$30B" is going into items related to maned space
travel. 
I would gess a large amount goes into things that are used in maned and unmaned
travel. A cost analysis of man v. robot is not this simple.

John.