Nearly $634 million would go to aeronautics research, including the X-59 QueSST low-boom supersonic aircraft that Langley wind tunnels are helping to hone.īridenstine’s address coincided with social media tours at NASA centers across the country. Last year, Congress eventually restored the budgets for CLARREO Pathfinder and the education office. “This is where the country needs to be focused,” she said. Mangum was disappointed in the proposed withdrawal of education funding. That mission is to develop the technology needed to assess the risks of coastal flooding to military installations and communities in the coming decades.Īs with last year’s request, the new budget also would eliminate all funds for NASA’s Office of Education, which provides grants as well as outreach and engagement to students in the STEM disciplines. The Science Directorate, which includes planetary and Earth science, would get nearly $5.9 billion.īut the Earth science sub-budget of nearly $1.8 billion includes terminating several Earth-viewing instruments, including the CLARREO Pathfinder mission run out of NASA Langley. Under the new budget, space operations and exploration research combined would get more than $10 billion. NASA and its partners are continuing to develop advanced infrastructure for space - the Orion crew capsule and the world’s most powerful rocket to boost it toward the moon, long-duration space habitats, an orbiting Gateway platform that can operate in cislunar space using solar electric propulsion, and robotic lunar technology. And it requires an all-of-the-above approach.” “The moon is the proving ground,” said Bridenstine. Technologies developed in that effort are intended to help get crews to the Martian system. In 2017, Trump issued his Space Policy Directive 1 for NASA - then heavily focused on getting a crew to Mars by the 2030s - to join with international and commercial partners to return humans to the lunar surface and establish a sustainable presence there.
“I am happy to tell you that NASA’s budget request from the president of the United States is strong, and we have strong bipartisan support from both chambers of Congress,” Bridenstine said. The 2020 budget was central to a “State of NASA: Moon to Mars” address delivered to employees Monday by agency Administrator Jim Bridenstine at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and live-streamed to all NASA centers.īridenstine, a former Navy pilot, was a congressman from Oklahoma when Trump tapped him to head the space agency last year.
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