FY2022 NASA Budget Request Nearly $25 Billion
The FY2022 NASA budget request from the Biden administration totals $24.7 billion and keeps the agency's Artemis mission on track.
“This $24.7 billion funding request demonstrates the Biden Administration’s commitment to NASA and its partners who have worked so hard this past year under difficult circumstances and achieved unprecedented success."
Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk.
The funding request submitted to Congress at the end of March keeps NASA on the path to landing the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon under the Artemis program. This goal aligns with President Biden’s commitment to pursue a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all. With NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, as well as U.S. commercial partnerships with the human landing system and Gateway lunar outpost, we will send astronauts to the Moon and provide learning opportunities for future missions.
Additionally, the agency says the funding request:
Strengthens NASA’s ability to better understand Earth and how it works as an integrated system, from our oceans to our atmosphere, how it all impacts our daily lives, and how it all is impacted by climate change.
Furthers robotic exploration of the solar system and the universe.
Invests in aviation to make our skies safer, our fuels cleaner, and to get you to your destination faster than ever before.
Includes new funding for NASA’s STEM engagement efforts to inspire underserved and underrepresented students to become the next generation of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and explorers.
These discretionary investments reflect only one element of the president’s broader agenda. In the coming months, the administration will release the president’s budget, which will present a unified, comprehensive plan to address the overlapping crises we face in a fiscally and economically responsible way," said acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk.
“This $24.7 billion funding request demonstrates the Biden Administration’s commitment to NASA and its partners who have worked so hard this past year under difficult circumstances and achieved unprecedented success. The president’s discretionary request increases NASA’s ability to better understand Earth and further monitor and predict the impacts of climate change. It also gives us the necessary resources to continue advancing America’s bipartisan Moon to Mars space exploration plan, including landing the first woman and first person of color on the Moon under the Artemis program.
“We know this funding increase comes at a time of constrained resources, and we owe it to the president and the American people to be good and responsible stewards of every tax dollar invested in NASA. The NASA workforce and the American people should be encouraged by what they see in this funding request. It is an investment in our future, and it shows confidence in what this agency has to offer.”
“CSF is encouraged by the initial details from the Biden Administration’s FY2022 NASA budget request and looks forward to reviewing the full budget request later this spring," the Commercial Spaceflight Federation said in a statement posted on its website. "The proposed increase to NASA’s budget topline, continuation of the Artemis program and the National Space Council, and nomination of former Senator Bill Nelson for NASA Administrator send a strong signal of the Biden Administration’s early support for an ambitious national space program. America’s commercial space industry will continue to work closely with the Administration and with NASA to extend and expand the use of innovative public-partnerships and fixed-price commercial services contracts that enable a preeminent, sustainable space enterprise above the Earth and across the solar system.”
(Source: NASA and CSF news releases. Image from file)