On Monday, President Obama released a new budget for the space agency. While his budget request includes a yearly increase, some of their favorite programs were axed. In particular, there is no money in the budget for a return to the moon. Good has published an infographic which focuses on Nasa’s space budget. The infographic looks at how much NASA has received each year since the 1960’s, and places that into context with the total federal budget. For the last several years, NASA has been averaging about 0.5% of the federal budget. The graphic then looks at what missions have occurred over that time period.
Personally, I think that this is another great example of what not to do in an infographic. First, the image is too large to view even on a 30″ monitor. Secondly, it blinks. Yes, you read that right, it has elements in the infographic that blink. Thirdly, someone needs to spend some time making sure that the color scheme is chosen so that you can read it. Fourthly, someone needs to realize that an 8-bit Hubble telescope picture in the background looks horrible, especially when combined with the poor colors for the text. Finally, please spend some time making sure that you spell correctly.
Randall found a better version of an infographic for NASA’s budget on Flickr.
via : NASA’s New Budget
