Friday, April 9, 2021

Artemis Update: The White House's Proposed Budget for 2022 Has Promising News for NASA's Burgeoning Moon Program...

An artist's concept of NASA's Gateway orbiting the Moon.
NASA

Acting NASA Administrator Statement on Agency FY 2022 Discretionary Request (Press Release)

The Biden-Harris Administration submitted to Congress Friday the president’s priorities for fiscal year 2022 discretionary spending. The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk on the funding request:

“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.”

The president’s FY 2022 discretionary funding request:

- 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.

- 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.

For more information on NASA’s fiscal year 2022 discretionary request, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/budget

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A huge smoke cloud shoots out from the flame trench underneath the B-2 Test Stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi...as the Space Launch System ignites its four RS-25 engines for the Green Run hot fire test on March 18, 2021.
NASA / SSC - Danny Nowlin

Inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Orion capsule's European Service Module is encapsulated by its three spacecraft adapter fairing panels...on October 28, 2020.
NASA

An artist's concept of Blue Origin's Human Landing System about to touch down on the surface of the Moon.
Blue Origin

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