I think NASA is great, all that space stuff. I remember when I was in college I got a personal tour at the Johnson Space Center, and I got to put on a glove that had been worn on the surface of the moon (it was in a closet with all the used space suits). However, despite my interest in science and space, I feel like its a lot to ask of average (tax paying) people to pay roughly 800 Billion dollars for a tiny handful of useful spin offs. The satellites have great military and commercial usefulness, but a lot of money has been spent that would have been better to leave with the people that made it.