NASA’s 2025 Spending Plan Is Not What Was Imagined Last Year

NASA sample collection tubes

Sample collection tubes, retrieved and packed by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover, await a return to Earth. The program’s funding is uncertain.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
NASA is adjusting its spending outlook after budget caps nixed the Biden administration’s requested $2.3 billion hike for fiscal 2024 and sharply limited the White House’s ask for next year. Under the agreement hashed out by congressional appropriators and signed by President Joe Biden on March 9...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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