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Here’s what NASA could accomplish if it had the US military’s $600 billion budget

In 2016, the US military's budget was about $580 billion more than NASA's.

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NASA has been a household name for Americans since the '60s when it achieved the seemingly impossible, landing humans on the Moon.

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Since then, NASA has explored other alien surfaces like, Mars and Saturn's moon Titan, as well as flown by every planet in our solar system.

It has achieved so much on a budget that is so small. Imagine if we gave NASA hundreds of billions of dollars a year like what we give the US military. What more could NASA have achieved over the years?

This is one example where the sky is not the limit — it's the starting line. Following is a transcript of the video.

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