[oh8eleven]

Why is the US government funding UFO research?
Why is the US government funding NASA? We went to the moon almost half a century ago and that should have been the end of it.
Instead we got the Space Shuttle program - Thirty years of nothing that cost $196 billion and 14 dead astronauts.

[PIF]

We probably got it because the majority of Americans support manned and unmanned missions. And because the majority have a sense of wonder about the universe and our place in it... or because navel gazing just seems so tacky.