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NASA’s biggest human spaceflight projects, the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule, would receive their full funding amount, with a little more than requested for SLS. For 2022, however, NASA requested $101.1 million for this year, and appropriators allotted the full amount in the new bill.Īs for NASA’s other programs, funding is staying relatively stable. For 20, NASA requested $150 million for both fiscal years, but Congress only appropriated $15 million and then $17 million. However, NASA has struggled to get money for this transitional program. They could provide platforms for NASA’s astronauts to visit in the post-ISS era. (It’s unclear whether Russia will hop on board with that, considering the current circumstances.) Regardless, once the space station program ends, NASA hopes to have nurtured the private space industry into developing their own commercial space stations that would take over the domain of low Earth orbit.
Residing in low Earth orbit, the ISS is funded through 2024, though the Biden administration announced plans to extend operations through 2030.
The wording does not explicitly say that NASA must pick a second company to develop a human lander, though an earlier version of a House appropriation bill expressed concern at the agency’s decision to pick just one company.Īnother area at NASA that has been notoriously underfunded is the agency’s program to develop a successor to the International Space Station. Congress is also asking NASA to provide a detailed list of resources it needs through 2026 to meet those goals. Now, if NASA receives the money it requested for the landing system this year, Congress is calling on the space agency to “deliver a publicly available plan explaining how it will ensure safety, redundancy, sustainability, and competition” in the human lunar lander program, within 30 days of the bill’s signing. But with only a fraction of the money for the program, NASA selected only one company, SpaceX, to develop its Starship vehicle into a lander, citing the company’s low price tag as a big consideration in that decision. Originally, the space agency hoped to choose at least two commercial companies to build human lunar landers for Artemis as a way to spark competition and have redundancy. For 2021, appropriators only provided $850 million of the requested $3.4 billion for the lander.Ī few projects that House and Senate lawmakers are finally agreeing to fund in their entiretyĪs a result of the cash shortfall, NASA made some changes to its Artemis plans. Previously, Congress showed its reluctance to give NASA the money it requested for the lander. Currently, NASA is developing a new human lunar lander as part of its Artemis program, an initiative to send the first woman and first person of color to the Moon. The bill would give NASA’s human landing system the full $1.195 billion that the request asked for. Though Congress’s plan would not fully meet the president’s budget request, there are a few projects that House and Senate lawmakers are finally agreeing to fund in their entirety. However, NASA would still see a slight bump from its total funding for fiscal year 2021, which sat at $23.27 billion. NASA’s portion is roughly $800 million less than the $24.8 billion that President Joe Biden’s budget request called for in May of 2021. Overall, NASA would receive $24.041 billion for 2022 in this new bill, which will fund the US government for fiscal year 2022. Notably, NASA’s program to develop a new human lunar lander would be fully funded as the president’s budget requested, as will a program to develop new commercial space stations in low Earth orbit. If Congress’ sweeping new spending bill is signed, it would finally provide full funding to some major NASA projects that have been underfunded over the last few years.
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