Those who say NASA is giving up on human space exploration may want to take a look at the details the agency just released about where its budgeted money is going over the next several years. The table on page EXP-3 of this document shows more than $15 billion over the next five years allocated for…
Those who say NASA is giving up on human space exploration may want to take a look at the details the agency just released about where its budgeted money is going over the next several years. The table on page EXP-3 of this document shows more than $15 billion over the next five years allocated for exploration technologies, much of it geared toward human space flight. Over and above that, there is $5.8 billion slated for "Commercial Crew" space flight. Whereas the canceled Constellation program had allocated only $151 million a year for researching human adaptation to space, the new budget puts $215 million into that program for each of the next five years.
