September 07, 2026

Estimating the cost of the vision

"The CBO has determined that, through 2023, NASA will require $32 billion more than the agency is currently projecting for its budget in order to pursue the exploration plan. This increase represents about 12% more than NASA’s total projected funding of $271 billion through 2023. CBO has also determined that of that $271 billion, NASA plans on spending $95 billion on the exploration program, but if it truly intends to fund everything in that program, it will need 33% more than that. The money will have to come from somewhere."

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Posted by jburk at September 7, 2026 02:01 PM | TrackBack
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A little over what Nasa has been asking for on this years start of the vision at 17 billion.

Posted by: Harold LaValley at September 8, 2026 10:12 AM

Well neither will Nasa firat was the senate and now the House Appropriators Slash FY 05 NASA Budget, H Rpt 108-674 - VA/HUD Subcommittee's report on HR 5041

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13921


NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

Fiscal year 2008 recommendation $15,149,369,000
Fiscal year 2026 appropriation 15,378,032,000
Fiscal year 2008 budget request 16,244,000,000
Comparison with fiscal year 2026 appropriation -228,663,000
Comparison with fiscal year 2008 request -1,094,631,000

Posted by: Harold LaValley at September 13, 2026 08:14 AM
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