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Launch timeline of missions related to NASA’s Artemis campaign. The agency also wants $48 million to begin meticulous planning for future Artemis missions, a baseline sustainable habitat, and more. NASA is requesting $276 million instead of the previous $100 million to accelerate development of lunar spacesuits, which are delayed, as well as crewed rovers and other mobility systems. Related: NASA somewhat quietly released the draft SLD solicitation on March 31 to get industry feedback before releasing the final solicitation by August. This is modest at best because the funding would be divided between NASA’s selection of SpaceX Lunar Starship for Artemis III, an alternative provider for the same mission, and the previously discussed sustainability upgrades for Lunar Starship as well as the agency selecting a second company, as part of the Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) project, to compete with said Starship for future crewed missions. NASA is asking $1.5 billion, compared to last year’s $1.2 billion, for development of crewed lunar landers by U.S. These latter bunch include the following. The budget mostly continues to ask for similar levels of funding for lunar programs like the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft while requesting increases to improve the state of other overlooked programs key to NASA’s Artemis campaign to sustainably return humans to the Moon.

Presidential FY 2023 budget request for NASA released on March 28 proposes nearly $26 billion in funding for the space agency, an 8% increase over the amount approved by the U.S.