Just funding the organization is not the right concept .  Funding should be evaluated based on the merits of the projects and usefulness of the projects for the country.  Lot of money was spent on R&D projects but outcome of the projects for real life use are minimal.

The manned space shuttle program should now be shut down. It is expensive and does not give any return on the investment.

Many of the organizations and projects funded by NASA and the NSF are infested with cronyism, nepotism and incredible high-life waste.  The whole approach to national science programs needs to be restructured to be fair, equitable and accountable to the taxpayer for the dollars spent.  Enough with tenured scientists and special endowments.  To be competitive and move forward, this is one area where I know for a fact we need to clean house.  The structure and function of many of these taxpayer funded institutions makes Chicago Politics look like a bright sunny day.

Remove the layers of bureaucracy obscuring the actual taxpayer expenditures, restore merit for work and eliminate the cronyism and tit for tat and you may offer some dedicated scientists a system in which they can participate and thrive.   The way US Science dollars are allocated and spent has a lot to do with our inablity to make progress, and in many ways resembles the scandolous waste and cluelessness as to what is appropriate in entertainment and personal benefit allocations expenditures of taxpayer dollars.

Science happens with out special interaction facilities creating the proper atmosphere for the exchange of ideas.  Great science can happen on a crowded train or anyplace else...the current system incourages endless dollars spent on endless discussion while actual faciities and research output decompose.

Funding AND supporting NASA can help meet 2 out of the 5 main agenda items listed on change.gov:
1) Revitalizing the Economy and 5) Renewing American Global Leadership

We can not be left behind in space after holding such a substantial lead for decades. We (as a country) must continue to push new frontiers and when we have paved the way we should pass it on to private companies who will continue the work and create new jobs and industries. Companies like Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactic, Bigelow Aerospace, and SpaceX are beginning to "settle" on that frontier that NASA first reached in the 1960s. Earth orbit's future is now in the hands of these pioneers.

Now NASA must push beyond Earth orbit and continue our expansion into space. We need to go to the moon and beyond. India and China both have solid plans to send men to the moon by 2020 and the Europeans and Russians have their own goals in regards to the moon as well. In the 1960s and 70s we sent men to the moon and it seemed that there was nothing that could hold back American ingenuity and innovation. The world looked at us in awe. We must not lose this global leadership.