NASA Will Get A 2024 Fiscal Year Fund Allocation Of IDR 391 Trillion

Congress has announced the allocation of funds for NASA (photo: dock. NASA)

JAKARTA The US Congress has distributed a draft law (RUU) allocation for the fiscal year 2024. One of the bills discussed is trade, justice and science (CJS) for NATION.

In the bill, it is recorded that NASA will receive an allocation fund of US$24,875 billion (Rp391 trillion). This fund is eight percent lower than the amount proposed by NASA, which is US$27,185 billion (Rp427 billion).

However, when compared to last year, the funds agreed by Congress only decreased by two percent. This final fund will be at the DPR and Senate levels, US$25.367 billion (Rp399 trillion) and US$25 billion (Rp393 billion), respectively.

At the end of last year, NASA decided to cut spending on Mars Sample Return (MSR) missions. NASA also decided to postpone the mission due to an unclear allocation of fiscal funds in 2024.

After the bill was released, the report shared stated that NASA was reassessing the MSR architecture. This reassessment is being carried out by a group called the MSRident Review Board Response Team (MIRT).

"The agreement directs NASA to report no later than 60 days after the MRT report is completed on the recommended path forward for MSR, in a balanced portfolio of Science," the report reads, quoted by Spacenews.

The report directs NASA to spend no less than 300 million US dollars (Rp4.7 trillion), the amount set for the MSR mission. This particular directive was made so that NASA does not stop more workers.

In addition to discussing the MSR mission, the report also recorded an allocation of funds for the On-Orbit Servicing mission, Assembly and Manufacturing1 (OSAM-1). However, NASA agreed to stop this mission on Friday, March 1.