The ‘Big Beautiful Bill ‘ approved last week and signed by President Donald Trump also includes New funds for NASA And some of his programswho appear in contrast with The cuts proposed by White House for the tax year 2026: starting from almost 10 thousand billion dollars allocated for the Artemis programwhich aims to report the astronauts on the moon. Of these, the most consistent share is that of beyond 4 billion for the Space Launch System (SLS), the NASA lunar rocket: the law establishes, in fact, that at least 1 billion per year will have to be spent for the launch system from here until 2029.
The funds also include 20 million dollars intended for Orion capsulewho will have to transport astronauts, e 2.6 billion additional for the Lunar Gatewaythe future space station in orbit around the moon: for the latter, 750 million a year will have to be spent for the next 3 years. There International Space Station gets 1.25 billionWhile 325 million dollars will be paid to comply with the contract of the American space agency with Spacexwhich sees Elon Musk’s company engaged in the development of a ‘Space tugs’ That will accompany there ISS in a controlled return to the Pacific Ocean at the end of his operational life, after 2030.
The law allocates, then, 700 million for a New Martian orbiter used for telecommunications at high performance to and from the planet: it must be used both in the mission Mars Sample Returnthis too In the list of those that Trump would like to deleteboth in future robotic and crew missions. Finally, it was foreseen 1 billion dollars for generic ‘improvements’ to the spatial bases of NASA: The most substantial odds will go to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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