Your definition of "very high" costs likely don't align with what you think of when you think of "very high" government spending. NASA's 25 billion dollar budget for 2025 was a paltry ~.4% of the total government budget.
Wikimedia foundation's operating budget is 207 million a year - a drop in the ocean of federal budgets, if Factbook was similar.
> NASA's 25 billion dollar budget for 2025 was a paltry ~.04% of the total government budget.
I'm sorry, I think you have a math or data error here. The US government budget for 2025 was not $62.5 trillion dollars.
Yea, they where off by a factor of 10, so 0.4%.
Now fixed. Point still stands!