We are in truth leading
the world into a new and
dynamic era of
spaceflight.
The nation is proudly
behind us in this endeavor.
And I am happy to announce
that President Donald
Trump’s Fiscal year 2021
budget request invest in
NASA more than 25
Billion dollars.
On Feb. 10, 2020 NASA
Administrator Jim Bridenstine unveiled our FY 2021 Budget
That’s a 12% increase and
it includes 3.3 billion
dollars for a human
landing system.
This is a 21-century
budget worthy of 21
century space exploration
and one of our strongest
budgets in NASA’s history.
ORION is the first human
spacecraft we’ve built for
deep space missions
in over a generation.
After final testing is
complete, the Orion will
be returned to the Kennedy
Space Center and be
stacked atop the space
launch system in
preparation for the
Artemis-1 mission.
The space launch system
rocket is the foundation
with more than a thousand
large and small businesses
in 44 states contributing
to the design and assembly.
The SLS rocket is in
fact America rocket.
The budget fully supports
the Commercial Lunar Payload services to deliver NASA science to the moon
This budget includes more
than 1.5 billion dollars
for exploration technology
in support of the Artemis program.
The 2021 budget also
strongly support planetary
science including
providing funds to study
the celestial bodies
around us like never before.
The 2021 budget fully
supports aeronautic
research that enables
breakthroughs such as our
X-57 all electric
experimental airplane.
We are also moving forward
on the testing of the low
boom flight demonstrator
with anticipated first
flights in 2022
This year we must build on
our success by continuing
to devote ourselves
to the agency mission.
And the science and
technology we are working
on right now will prepare
us in this new exploration
to take humanities next
giant leap to mars.
Friends we are the Artemis
generation and we are going.
Thank you so much.
