NASA represents 0.25% of the federal budget. A quarter of one percent.

We could have 57 NASAs for what we spend on one DoD. We could have nearly 100 for what we spend on one HHS.

NASA also has a ridiculously high ROI from their library of patents, too. Probably one of the highest.

This is kind of a bad way to look at it though...you can't really put a monetary value on what we get back from HHS or even really DoD. There's a lot of bad, but it's also what keeps America the economic powerhouse that it is, through all of our soft power and protecting global trade routes. We still put in far too much to both (although DoD could be one of the few functional example of trickle-down economics there is, since most spending stays domestic)