It's not like NASA had the money just lying around...

[p51]

Sheesh, as if NASA didn’t have problems with its budget as it is, I bet this kind of thing happens to them all the time: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-0 ... cture.html

[Vincent]

One man's pork is another man's jobs program...

[Phoenix PK]

Sort of the way it all started down there, with state senator John Sparkman.
In one way of thinking, we can thank pork spending for the creation of Space Camp.