Ad
related to: why we should fund nasa with taxpayer dollars and paid bills back
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Annual budget. NASA's budget for financial year (FY) 2020 is $22.6 billion. [1] It represents 0.48% of the $4.7 trillion the United States plans to spend in the fiscal year. [2] Since its inception the United States has spent nearly US$650 billion (in nominal dollars) on NASA.
The total cost of the program was $469 million -- about $4.2 billion in today's dollars. So each successful landing cost about $840 million. Compared to that, the $117 million in taxpayer dollars ...
The space policy of the Barack Obama administration was announced by U.S. President Barack Obama on April 15, 2010, at a major space policy speech at Kennedy Space Center. [1] He committed to increasing NASA funding by $6 billion over five years and completing the design of a new heavy-lift launch vehicle by 2015 and to begin construction ...
Whitson spoke to the president from space in April aboard the International Space Station and while flying back home after breaking the record for most time in space by a U.S. astronaut in September. Koch is a member of NASA's astronaut class of 2013. On December 20, 2019, the United States Space Force was established with the passing of NDAA ...
Congress' proposed 2016 NASA budget rebalancing is getting pushback before it even goes to markup, because it puts the majority of the agency's funds toward space exploration. Wait, what? The ...
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) is a NASA program to hire companies to send small robotic landers and rovers to the Moon. Most landing sites are near the lunar south pole [1][2] where they will scout for lunar resources, test in situ resource utilization (ISRU) concepts, and perform lunar science to support the Artemis lunar program.
e. The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), formally established in 2017 via Space Policy Directive 1. It is intended to reestablish a human presence on the Moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The program's stated long-term goal is ...
The Vision for Space Exploration sought to implement a sustained and affordable human and robotic program to explore the Solar System and beyond; extend human presence across the Solar System, starting with a human return to the Moon by the year 2020, in preparation for human exploration of Mars and other destinations; develop the innovative technologies, knowledge, and infrastructures both to ...