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The American public, on average, believes NASA's budget has a much larger share of the federal budget than it actually does. A 1997 poll reported that Americans had an average estimate of 20% for NASA's share of the federal budget, far higher than the actual 0.5% to under 1% that has been maintained throughout the late '90s and first decade of ...
This includes NASA's budget of $58.7 billion ($89.73 billion in 2021 dollars) for the station from 1985 to 2015, Russia's $12 billion, Europe's $5 billion, Japan's $5 billion, Canada's $2 billion, and the cost of 36 shuttle flights to build the station, estimated at $1.4 billion each, or $50.4 billion in total.
[23] [24] This was the first time NASA did not specifically list space exploration as a priority. [25] The NASA Authorization Act of 2010, passed on October 11, 2010, authorized funds for NASA for fiscal year 2011–2013, and enacted many of his stated space policy goals. A total of $58 billion in funding is called for, spread across three ...
NASA's 2016 budget would dedicate $1.947 billion of its total funds to the official study of earth. The version in Congress would chop that allotment down to $1.45 billion. NASA would probably ...
In 2009, the Augustine Commission appointed by President Barack Obama found that the program's funding and resources were insufficient to execute its goals without significant delays to its schedule and an increase of US$3 billion in funding, [11] which prompted NASA to start considering alternatives to the program. [12]
The new law allots the space agency $19.5 billion for the 2018 fiscal year and adds a new objective of sending humans to Mars.
In 2020, NASA received $22.6 billion, approximately 0.5% of the total budget of the federal government. [9] NASA funding has hovered around 0.5% since 2011, after steadily decreasing from 1% of the annual federal budget around 1993, a percentage it had hovered around since 1975.
Today, NASA announced 18 innovative concepts that will receive NIAC funding. Now, we take human space flight for granted, but we still need that out-of-the-box thinking to push the boundaries of ...