NASA criticized for proposed budget cuts
WASHINGTON —
NASA’s fiscal year 2020 budget request is facing scrutiny from nearly all quarters for its proposals to cut science missions and education programs as well as defer work on an upgraded version of the Space Launch System.
The proposal, released March 11, offers $21.02 billion for NASA in 2020,
a decrease of about $480 million over what the agency received in 2019 in an appropriations bill signed into law Feb. 15.
Those cuts, though, are not distributed equally among the agency’s various directorates.
NASA’s science programs would receive $6.3 billion, a decrease of $600 million from what they received in 2019.
That includes a 30 percent cut for NASA astrophysics programs excluding the James Webb Space Telescope, which is funded in a different budget line.
The first launch of the SLS would now take place in the “early 2020s,” according to the administration’s fiscal year budget request, while deferring work on the Block 1B version. Credit: NASA
Account
FY19 Enacted
FY20 Proposal
Difference
SCIENCE
$6,905.7
$6,303.7
-$602.0
– Earth Science
$1,931.0
$1,779.8
-$151.2
– Planetary Science
$2,758.5
$2,622.1
-$136.4
– Astrophysics
$1,496.2
$1,197.4
-$298.8
– Heliophysics
$720.0
$704.5
-$15.5
AERONAUTICS
$725.0
$666.9
-$58.1
SPACE TECHNOLOGY
$926.9
$1,014.3
$87.4
EXPLORATION
$5,050.8
$5,021.7
-$29.1
– Orion
$1,350.0
$1,266.2
-$83.8
– Space Launch System
$2,150.0
$1,775.4
-$374.6
– Exploration Ground Systems
$592.8
$400.1
-$192.7
– Exploration R&D
$958.0
$1,580.0
$622.0
SPACE OPERATIONS
$4,639.1
$4,285.7
-$353.4
STEM ENGAGEMENT
$110.0
$0.0
-$110.0
SAFETY, SECURITY AND MISSION SERVICES
$2,755.0
$3,084.6
$329.6
CONSTRUCTION & ENVIRONMENTAL
$348.2
$600.4
$252.2
INSPECTOR GENERAL
$39.3
$41.7
$2.4
TOTAL
$21,500.0
$21,019.0
-$481.
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