NASA’s FY2013 Budget Request

NASA’s FY2013 Budget Request is a SpacePolicyOnline.com fact sheet that tracked NASA’s FY2013 budget request as it worked its way through Congress.  The fact sheet summarizes three key issues that arose while Congress debated the bill:  robotic Mars exploration, whether to transfer NOAA’s weather satellite programs to NASA, and funding for the commercial crew program.

This edition of the fact sheet includes final funding figures for NASA from its FY2013 operating plan, which was approved in August 2013.  NASA has not released the operating plan to the public, but provided the figures in this fact sheet upon request by SpacePolicyOnline.com on August 29, 2013. In addition, it includes a chart using data provided by NASA’s planetary science division director with additional details on the final FY2013 funding figures for specific planetary exploration programs.   This final version is dated August 29, 2013.