The document discusses the budget of NASA for the 2017 fiscal year. It notes that NASA's budget of $19 billion was only 0.52% of the overall $3.65 trillion US budget. This is lower than the budget during the Apollo missions in the 1960s, which was 0.83% of the national budget. Even though $19 billion seems like a lot, when divided among taxpayers, each person is only contributing about $12.98 per month to NASA's budget. The largest portions of NASA's budget went to space operations (34%) and science (21%), while only 10% went to space technology development.