Americans’ Views of Space: U.S. Role, NASA Priorities and Impact of Private Companies
Sample sizes and margins of error, ATP Wave 128
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- Americans’ Views of Space: U.S. Role, NASA Priorities and Impact of Private Companies
- 69% of Americans say it is essential for U.S. to be a leader in space exploration
- 55% of Americans think people will routinely travel in space as tourists in the next 50 years
- Americans place monitoring asteroids that could hit Earth at top of NASA’s priority list
- 65% of Americans believe it’s essential for NASA to continue to be involved in space exploration
- Public ratings of private space companies tilt positive for most aspects of their performance
- 35% of Americans say they would be interested in traveling on a private spacecraft to orbit the Earth
- Almost half of Americans have engaged in a space-related activity within the last year
- Men are more likely than women to have taken part in a space-related activity recently
- Men and older adults are especially likely to see it as essential that the U.S. is a world leader in space
- Views of NASA priorities among men and women
- Partisans rank many NASA priorities similarly, but Democrats give higher priority to climate monitoring
- NASA priorities by educational attainment
- Those most familiar with NASA are more likely to see scientific research as a top priority for space agency
- Ratings of private space companies’ performance by political party
- Those most familiar with private space companies are especially positive in their ratings of their performance
- American Trends Panel recruitment surveys
- Invitation and reminder dates, ATP Wave 128
- American Trends Panel weighting dimensions
- Sample sizes and margins of error, ATP Wave 128
- Final dispositions, ATP Wave 128
- Cumulative response rate as of ATP Wave 128
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