The Biden administration is requesting $26 billion for NASA in its fiscal 2023 budget — a $2.7 billion increase over the enacted 2021 budget — and includes $7.5 billion for the Artemis moon program.
Another $1.5 billion would go development of new Human Landing System moon landers procured through competition following three initial Artemis landings using SpaceX vehicles, one unpiloted and two carrying astronauts.The budget request includes $1.042 billion for International Space Station operations, acknowledging a, and $1.642 billion for commercial crew spacecraft built by SpaceX and Boeing and the unpiloted SpaceX Dragon and Northrop Grumman cargo ships that deliver supplies and equipment.
Farther afield, the budget includes $822 million for continued development of a Mars sample return mission, an ambitious robotic flight to bring martian rock and soil samples back to Earth; $482 million for work on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope; and $184 million for a new spacecraft to study the immediate aftermath of the big bang.
But like all budget requests, its ultimate fate is up to Congress. Thanks to an impasse over the fiscal 2022 budget, the federal government currently is funded through stop-gap spending measures called continuing resolutions that effectively freeze spending at previously approved levels. "It's critical that Congress come to a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on FY22 funding. A full-year continuing resolution would the agency without the funding needed to achieve our important goals on behalf of the nation.
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