Where NASA spends its budget

$25.4 Billion

Enacted appropriations across NASA’s mission directorates, fiscal year 2024.

29.4%

Science

30.6%

Deep Space

17.2%

Space Ops

12.1%

Support

4.7%

Space Tech

3.5%

Aero

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Deep Space Exploration

$7.77B · 30.6%

The largest single line in the agency’s budget: crewed hardware, launch systems and the ground infrastructure behind a return to the Moon.

In this budget

  • Artemis II and III

  • Orion and SLS

  • Human Landing System

Deep space exploration — Artemis, Orion and the SLS rocket — is the single largest line in the agency’s budget.