How much money does the USA give NASA per year?

Hello yheggy-ga,

On September 21, 2004, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee
approved $16.379 billion in funding for NASA for fiscal year 2005. 
This is a $200 million increase over what NASA received for fiscal
year 2004.



U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
Press Release
September 21, 2004
http://appropriations.senate.gov/releases/record.cfm?id=226469
?National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): is funded at
$16.379 billion, an increase of $200 million over the FY04 enacted
level, and a reduction of $665 million from the budget request. An
additional $800 million in emergency funding was added for NASA during
the Committee?s consideration of the bill.

-- The return to flight activities for the Shuttle program are funded
at $4.319 billion, the requested level from the Administration.

-- The International Space Station is funded at $1.6 billion. The bill
reduces ISS operations by $120 million due to the continued reduced
capability of the ISS for at least half of FY05.

-- The Moon/Mars vision: 

--- The Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) is funded at $268 million. 

--- A lunar exploration mission is funded at $20 million. 

--- $10 million is provided for Centennial Challenges. Neighborhood
Reinvestment Corporation (NRC): is funded at $115 million, the same as
FY04 and the budget request.?




Spacetoday.net 
Senate increases NASA funding
http://www.spacetoday.net/Summary/2564
?The Senate Appropriations Committee used a somewhat controversial
technique Tuesday to increase NASA's fiscal year 2005 budget by $200
million over what President Bush requested. The committee voted to
give NASA $16.4 billion in 2005, about $200 million more than what the
President requested and over $1 billion more than what House
appropriators approved in July.?




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Excellent answer googlenut.  Let me add some additional info.

You can get details about NASA spending here, from their own webpage. 

http://www.nasa.gov/about/budget/index.html

Also, from their own webpage, reasons why NASA is important, in a 5th grade format.

http://ksc.nasatechnology.com/resources/spinoffs/spinoffs.asp

I guess if you are someone not familiar with how NASA benefits our
society I can see how one might form the opinion of yheggy-ga.  Let me
put it this way - If you have watched TV recently, crossed a modern
bridge, flown in an airplane, recieved any form of modern medicine,
did any mathematics, drove a car, used a cellular phone, etc. then you
have somehow directly reaped the rewards which NASA has returned to
us.  Also NASA has a large outreach program for education, some people
believe this is important.

Best,
Steve.

i believe that NASA is a HUGE waste of tax payers' money, but there
are so many huge wastes of tax payer monies, that i find it best not
to think about it.  i also think the National Endowment for the Arts
is a waste, but i guess i would rather see my money go to the NEA than
NASA.  of course, in a perfect world, tax payers' money would go
toward some sort of national healthcare program, and housing for the
homeless, but this is far from a perfect world.  in response to
Steve's comment:  do you really believe that spending trillions on
space exploration over the years was the ONLY way to invent the
cellfone?  and bridges???  i find that extremely hard to believe.  i
think it could have been done in a much more cost efficient way, right
here on bad-old-planet-earth.  just my two cents.  thanks for
listening.