Question

A common misunderstanding among Americans is about the amount of money NASA receives from the US. government, NASA's budget has accounted for 0.5 percent of the total U.S. federal budget. That amounts to roughly $10 of an annual personal income tax going toward the best space program in the world. NASA accounts for 40 times less than what the federal government spends on the Department of Defense. Unfortunately, programs such as Project Constellation, which promised to return American astronauts to the moon, and ExoMars, which was designed to look for evidence of life on Mars and eventually land humans on Mars, have been put on hold due to budget cuts. The author uses this paragraph to develop which two claims? Collaboration with Russia to build the International Space Station resulted in the depletion of funds The U.S. Department of Defense is the strongest in the world, as it uses the funds that should actually be used by NASA. The amount of money spent on NASA is much less than the amount of money spent on the Department of Defense The majority of the federal budget should be spent on NASA, as its work is more important than the Department of Defense All the nations should come together in order to help NASA raise the necessary funds Project Constellation and ExoMars have been deferred due to a shortage of funds.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Project Constellation and ExoMars have been deferred due to a shortage of funds.​

NASA accounts for 40 times less than what the federal government spends on the Department of Defense.

Those are the 2 answers

Explanation:

The document clearly says: NASA accounts for 40 times less than what the federal government spends on the Department of Defense. This proves the first answer right. The second answer is also right because it was also explicitly stated in the article.

Additionally, the other choices don't make sense, as Russia was never specified, it never said that the Government of Defense was less important than NASA