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FY2020 National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Latest update APR 02, 2024

On this page you will find fiscal year 2020 budget and appropriations tables for NASA programs, as well as a high-level summary of related committee and chamber actions in Congress and FYI analysis and coverage of those programs.

Complete FYI coverage of this agency.

FYI Analysis
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In their fiscal year 2020 spending legislation, the House and Senate are both proposing stable funding for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, though the funding level Senate appropriators have proposed for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope could result in a delayed launch. The fates of controversial proposals to conduct a crewed lunar landing in 2024 and to land a probe on Jupiter’s moon Europa remain up in the air.
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The administration proposes to roll back the budget increase Congress has just provided to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. It again proposes no funding for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope or for a lander mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa.