2023-US-budget-NASA

The agency's budget request would provide funding to land humans on the lunar surface by the end of 2025.

The U.S. Space Force wants to overhaul its approach to acquisition.

The next Soyuz spacecraft, designated MS-23, will launch uncrewed on Feb. 20.

The 2023 budget includes funding for establishing a human presence at the Moon and developing new deep-space technologies.

Fiscal 2023 plans set another record for science as the agency places a premium on climate change research.

Award of a contract to build a large-scale sustainable flight demonstrator aircraft is a centerpiece of NASA’s $971.5 million budget request for aeronautics research in fiscal 2023.

NASA’s spending would continue to rise through the 2020s under the Biden administration’s $25.97 billion fiscal 2023 budget request submitted to Congress March 28.

NASA plans to extend its Human Landing System contract with SpaceX to cover a second crewed landing on the Moon and launch a parallel procurement leading to a second commercial provider for crewed transportation services to and from lunar orbit and the lunar surface.

An omnibus spending bill approved by U.S. House and Senate appropriations committees on March 9 allocates $24 billion to NASA for fiscal 2022, a $770 million increase over its 2021 budget, but $760 million short of the Biden administration’s request for the year that began Oct. 1, 2021.