The Future of NASA.

Vincent Sabathier, director of the Human Space Exploration Initiatives program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says NASA needs another $3 billion per year to do its exploration and scientific work effectively.

"NASA is an amazing tool for the U.S.," he says. The agency is "in trouble" because "we ask a lot from them, and we don't give them enough money." According to Sabathier, the agency needs another $3 billion per year to do its exploration and scientific work effectively.

"For one year of the cost of the war in Iraq," he says, "we could have a permanent lunar base."

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