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Government space agencies, established by governments of countries and regional agencies (groupings of countries) are established as a means for advocating for engaging in activities related to outer space, exploitation of space systems, and/or space exploration. The listings summarize all countries' and regional authorities' space agencies ...
NASA's budget peaked in 1964–66 when it consumed roughly 4% of all federal spending. The agency was building up to the first Moon landing and the Apollo program was a top national priority, consuming more than half of NASA's budget and driving NASA's workforce to more than 34,000 employees and 375,000 contractors from industry and academia. [20]
A positive (+) number indicates that revenues exceeded expenditures (a budget surplus), while a negative (-) number indicates the reverse (a budget deficit). Normalizing the data, by dividing the budget balance by GDP, enables easy comparisons across countries and indicates whether a national government saves or borrows money.
Falling budgets and rising Cold War tensions in the late 1970s saw these concepts fall by the wayside, along with another plan to have the Space Shuttle dock with a Salyut space station. [ 5 ] In the early 1980s, NASA planned to launch a modular space station called Freedom as a counterpart to the Salyut and Mir space stations.
Coincidently, the nations with existing space capabilities continued to develop satellite programmes and expand their space budgets. [10] By 2020, South Africa, Algeria, Nigeria, Egypt and Angola were the top 5 African countries in terms of allocated space budgets, with a combined budget of approximately $393 million USD (see Figure 1). [11 ...
But the boosts to the exploration budget would come at the expense of NASA's wide-ranging earth sciences program. NASA's 2016 budget would dedicate $1.947 billion of its total funds to the ...
Space exploration is the use of ... against other countries. [2] The early era of space exploration was driven by ... from NASA a five-year budget ...
NASA was on Capitol Hill this week, making the case for its planetary exploration budget. It's holding up its New Horizons mission to Pluto as ongoing evidence for the importance of that funding.