The front page of the Roskosmos site featured a graph showing government funding of the civil space programs of various countries for 2008. The figures, in billions of dollars, are:
- USA: $17.903
- ESA: $4.216
- China: unknown
- France: $1.748
- Japan: $1.692
- Russia: $1.538
- India: $0.92
The USA, represented by NASA, gets more funding than the other countries put together! People on space forums keep whinging about NASA’s supposed lack of funding, but compared to what little Russia and other countries have to make do with, NASA is comfortably well-off.
