This week, I had a conference with Ms. Bullis concerning my topic. She approved my topic and I told her what I've done so far, for example, I read Neil DeGrasse Tyson's book Space Chronicles which talks all about my topic, which is reasons there should be an increase in NASA's funding. I also found a paper describing public support for NASA in general, and have decided to try to run a school-wide survey with similar questions as in the paper. Dr. Tyson still hasn't replied to my letter, which might be because he hasn't received it yet, so I will look for mentors hopefully directly from NASA, or people related to NASA.
I also got a suggestion from my mom that I should talk to professional researchers to get an insight in the difficulty of getting funding. I want to talk about not only the most popular area of NASA, the space research and exploration, but also talk about how important its more minor programs are like weather mapping or satellite research.
"Public opinion polls and perceptions of US human spaceflight" by Roger Launius is an analysis of various surveys taken over the years concerning the public opinion on various NASA programs. It also disproves the popular assumption that public support skyrocketed during the Apollo program in the 60s and 70s.
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