NASA will receive more than $24 billion for space missions for fiscal year 2022, if Congress can pass a newly designed omnibus spending bill. The financing package allocates a total of $1.5 trillion to the entire government. The funds are about $760 million less than what US President Joe Biden requested last year, including: reported by Business Standard. If passed as expected, NASA will get $24,041,300,000, just $760.2 million less than requested and slightly more than the $23.3 billion it got last year. Read for more
Much of the money for 2022, about $7.6 billion, will go to NASA’s science projects to track the Earth ($2 billion) and the sun ($778 million), the rest of the solar system ($3.1 billion) and beyond ($1.4 to study). billion), with $83 million for biological sciences. NASA’s fiscal year runs from October 1 through September 30.
This development comes at an inconvenient time for the space agency, as it was recently criticized for underestimating the cost of Artemis — his mission to set foot on the moon again — and the future of the International Space Station looks uncertain due to the poor relations with Russia. The budget is part of the proposed Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Credit Act that is making its way through Congress.
US budget 2022
The United States Government Budget, Fiscal Year 2022, contains detailed information about the various credits and funds that make up the budget and is primarily intended for use by the credit committees. The appendix contains more detailed financial information on individual programs and credit accounts than any other budget document.
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It includes for each agency: the proposed text of the appropriations language; budget schedules for each account; legislative proposals; narrative explanation of each budget account; and proposed general provisions applicable to the credits of entire agencies or a group of agencies. Information is also provided on certain activities whose transactions are not part of the budget totals.