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NASA's Budget Forecast Is Looking Somewhat Better

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
December 17, 2019
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NASA's Budget Forecast Is Looking Somewhat Better

<Artemis Wins Only Lukewarm Support In Final NASA FY 2020 Appropriation, Space Policy Online
“The House and Senate Appropriations Committees released the final versions of all 12 FY2020 appropriations bills today and hope to get them passed by the end of the week. The Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) bill that funds NASA is combined with three others — Defense, Financial Services, and Homeland Security — into H.R. 1158, the “national security minibus.” It includes $22.629 billion for NASA, almost exactly the same as the $22.616 billion amended request, but with different priorities than the Trump Administration. Landing astronauts on the Moon by 2024 does not seem to be one of them. The bill rejects Trump Administration proposals to terminate or postpone a number of programs, and only partially funds the supplemental request for the Artemis Moon-by-2024 program. More than half the Artemis-related funding may not be obligated until NASA submits a multi-year plan explaining how it intends to execute that program and development of human lunar landers received far less than requested.”

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7 responses to “NASA's Budget Forecast Is Looking Somewhat Better”

  1. Winner says:
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    Switch from SLS to Falcon Heavy and Bingo! Enough money left for many lunar landers, even at the previous budget!

    • Matthew Black says:
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      Yes. Falcon Heavy and Vulcan-Centaur would be all they needed. Twinned launches of each would give a fairly decent amount of tonnage put into space for Lunar missions.

  2. MAGA_Ken says:
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    Hey, there’s money to be made.

  3. Michael Spencer says:
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    Exactly the kind of outcome many of us hoped for on the selection of Rep. Bridenstine. I don’t agree with the direction, but I admire the process. Excellent news.

  4. tutiger87 says:
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    Meanwhile, the deficit continues to explode. It’s not sustainable.

    • Donald Barker says:
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      Yes, and the military keep getting $700 billion plus a year – to either build weapons to kill humans or try to police the world. Eisenhower warned us about the greed, ego and avarice of the military industrial complex.
      Add to that the huge and growing costs of climate change, drought, fires, hurricanes, and trash, each year in the multi-billions of dollars.
      Additionally by about 2045, only 25 years from now, there will be an additional 100,000 people in this country alone and 2 billion on Earth. Anyone who blindly assumes we will solve, through technology or social structure, all the problems that we have now and does not think our problems will only be much more costly and dangerous in 25 years than now is naive.
      All of this and more will contribute to the potential failure of any future space exploration efforts and almost no one considers this holistic view when proposing or designing programs.

  5. mfwright says:
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    Will be very interesting to see what the real designs will look like. I’m skeptical of the concepts shown, reminds me of 1980s F22 artwork showing the planes with canards.