NASA will receive $25.4 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2023. This is roughly $1.3 billion more than NASA received in 2022, an increase of 5.6%. High inflation and growing labor costs will mitigate the purchasing power of this increase.
The President’s FY 2023 budget request for NASA proposed nearly $26 billion, an 8% increase. Though the Senate released a budget matching that topline, the House of Representatives’ legislation provided significantly less. The final compromise legislation fell $554 million short of both the Senate and the President’s spending proposals.
The shortfall was not spread evenly. Congress supported proposed budget growth for NASA’s human and scientific exploration programs, which are the primary interest of The Planetary Society:
- Artemis funding grew by $613 million, primarily for the lunar Human Landing System to support a second provider and to continue building a second mobile launch tower for the SLS rocket;
- Mars Sample Return received $822 million as requested, growing by nearly $200 million;
- the Planetary Science Division grew by $80M from 2022, with an additional $40 million above the Presidential request.
www.planetary.org/space-policy/nasas-fy-2023-budget