NASA will get more money from the US government than planned

NASA's overall budget for the next year is impressive - the agency receives $ 18 billion for its needs . At the same time, thanks to the new law, NASA gets $ 364 million more than planned recently (and 500 million more than planned in March).

The budget for the implementation of scientific missions reaches 5.24 billion US dollars, from this budget 1.44 billion dollars goes to the division of planetary sciences. The new law brings the minimum budget for a mission to study Europe (Jupiter's moon) to $ 100 million. The increase in the budget of this mission does not require a reduction in the budget of other missions and divisions, which is good news for NASA specialists.
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Division NASA, which is engaged in spacecraft, receives about 2.9 billion dollars from the budget. Astrophysicists receive 1.33 billion, which is 70 million more than previously requested. The money will be used to service the NASA Flying Reactive Observatory (SOFIA) . This lab is a modified Boeing 747 with an infrared telescope.

As you can see, the NASA budget is very large, and this is good news. After all, the agency plans to do a lot, and much has already been done. Ahead - the flight to the asteroid , its transportation to the orbit of the Moon, the study of the asteroid and the manned flight to Mars. But all this is still ahead, we can only wait.

And, by the way, space missions do not always require huge amounts of money. The same India sent its own orbital spacecraft to Mars , and only 75 million US dollars were spent on the development of the device, carrier, launch of the device. This is even less than the budget of the average Hollywood action movie with stars.