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NASA gets $27.2 billion in White House’s 2024 budget request

"Cape Canaveral, FL, USA- January 2, 2011: The NASA's Logo Signage at the Kennedy Space Center, NASA in Florida, USA."

Space.com

By Mile Wall

March 9, 2023

NASA will get a funding boost next year, if all goes according to plan.

The White House’s federal budget request for fiscal year 2024, which was released today (March 9), allocates $27.2 billion to NASA. That’s $1.8 billion more than the agency got this year, an increase of 7%. As usual, however, NASA’s slice of the overall pie is tiny; the budget projects total federal spending in 2024 to be $6.8 trillion.

The newly unveiled numbers are far from final: To be enacted, budgets must be approved by Congress, which holds the power of the purse in Washington.

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