NASA officials believe that Biden’s request will allow NASA to continue investments in the Artemis program, which aims to land the first woman and the first person of color on the moon in 2025, as well as provide more research into the climate crisis and promote diversity, equity and inclusion. The request was submitted to Congress Monday as part of President Joe Biden’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2023. It’s a signal of support for our missions in a new era of exploration and discovery.”
“It’s an investment in the businesses and universities that partner with NASA in all 50 states and the good-paying jobs they are creating.
“This budget reflects the Biden-Harris Administration’s confidence in the extraordinary workforce that makes NASA the best place to work in the federal government,” Nelson said. “Greater than a number, statistic, or fact is what the President’s budget request represents,” Nelson said in a statement. The figure is 8% more than the enacted federal spending levels, or the appropriation bill from fiscal year 2022, Nelson said. But some space analysts believe this new mission could also help solve the money problems NASA has been struggling with, by potentially moving space exploration into the hands of private entrepreneurs.The Biden administration’s request for the NASA budget in 2023 is $26 billion, the largest request for science in the space agency’s history, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday. The new funds, if approved, would double the money. House of Representatives discusses potential threats from space, following a meteor crash over Russia in February.Ĭurrently NASA's budget for identifying and tracking asteroids is roughly $20 million. The first test may come Wednesday afternoon when the Space and Technology Committee of the U.S. Still, in an age of austerity, there are sure to be fireworks in Congress over a $105 million proposal to chase down space rocks. To travel that distance will mean developing new technologies to power the spacecraft, since there are no gas stations in space. NASA is already working on building a rocket and capsule to take astronauts further than the moon-perhaps as far away as Mars. On April 15, 2010, President Obama called for a mission to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 after canceling plans for a manned mission to the moon. Kennedy first challenged the nation to go to the moon. One official is dubbing it the "boldest, most ambitious American space mission" since President John F. Ultimately, the plan would be to one day send a manned space mission to the asteroid. If that worst case scenario did happen, the hope is that the asteroid would burn up before reaching the Earth's atmosphere. The first step would be to identify an asteroid big enough to get a spacecraft to but small enough to manage in the event NASA lost control while moving it. "We were surprised to find technically this is well within our reach to do," said Tom Jones, a former veteran NASA astronaut and research scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. In the 1998 box-office hit "Armageddon" a group of oil drillers are hired by NASA to stop an asteroid the size of Texas from hitting Earth.īuried in President Obama's new budget plan released on Wednesday is $105 million to identify a small asteroid, capture it, and relocate it near the moon, according to an official familiar with the proposal. The White House is looking to turn science fiction into science fact. Ap- In its latest venture, NASA is taking a page from the script of a Bruce Willis blockbuster.
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