FISCAL YEAR 2015

BUDGET ESTIMATES

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Strategic Plan

Expand the frontiers 

of knowledge, 

capability, and 

opportunity in space OUR MISSION

Drive advances in science, 

technology, aeronautics, 

and space exploration to 

enhance knowledge, 

education, innovation, 

economic vitality, and 

stewardship of Earth

Serve the American 

public and accomplish 

our Mission by 

effectively managing 

our people, technical 

capabilities, and 

infrastructure

Advance understanding 

of Earth and develop 

technologies to 

improve the quality of 

life on our home planet

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2015 Budget Highlights

 Provides the necessary resources to advance the Nation’s 

bipartisan space exploration plan and ensure that the 

United States remains the world's leader in space 

exploration and scientific discovery for years to come.

Aligns NASA’s activities to send humans to an asteroid by 

2025 and Mars in the 2030s. 

Supports the Administration’s commitment that NASA be a 

catalyst for the growth of a vibrant American commercial 

space industry. 

Builds on U.S. preeminence in science and technology, 

improves life on Earth and protects our home planet, while 

creating jobs and strengthening the American economy. 

Extends the life of the International Space Station (ISS) 

until at least 2024, which is essential to achieving the goals 

of sending humans to deep space destinations and 

returning benefits to humanity through research and 

technology development. 

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Highlights (continued)

 Acquires commercial cargo supply missions to the ISS 

with launches from our shores, and further advances 

NASA’s initiative to return human spaceflight launches to 

the United States by 2017.

Enables partnerships with American industry to develop 

new ways to reach space, creating jobs and enabling 

NASA to focus on new technologies that benefit all of our 

missions. 

Funds the Space Launch System and Orion space crew 

vehicle to take astronauts farther into the solar system 

than we have ever gone before. 

Invests in transformative space technologies, such as 

high powered solar electric propulsion, advanced 

robotics, high speed communications and precise 

navigation that enable future NASA missions, and 

increase the Nation’s capabilities in space.

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Highlights (continued)

 Advances NASA’s first-ever mission to identify, capture 

and redirect an asteroid. This initiative represents an 

unprecedented technological feat -- raising the bar for 

human exploration and discovery, while helping protect 

our home planet and bringing us closer to a human 

mission to one of these mysterious objects and building 

deep space capabilities needed for future missions to 

Mars.

Continues to build on our nation's record of breathtaking 

and compelling scientific discoveries and achievements 

in space, with science missions that will reach far into our 

solar system, reveal unknown aspects of our universe 

and provide critical knowledge about our home planet. 

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Highlights (continued)

 Continues NASA’s global leadership in planetary 

exploration, with funding for missions to Mars, a potential 

mission to Europa, missions already heading toward 

destinations such as Jupiter and Pluto, and missions 

operating throughout the solar system.

Sustains NASA’s vital role in understanding the Earth’s 

systems and climate and the dynamics between our planet 

and the Sun. By the end of FY 2015, NASA will have 

launched an unprecedented five Earth science missions to 

find answers to critical challenges facing our planet today 

and in the future, including climate change, sea level rise, 

freshwater resources and extreme weather events. 

Makes steady progress toward our next Great Observatory 

as we develop and conduct critical tests on the James 

Webb Space Telescope. Its planned launch in 2018 will 

again revolutionize our understanding of the universe. 

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Highlights (continued)

 Aligns Aeronautics research to focus on newly 

defined strategic thrust areas that address a 

growing demand for mobility, severe challenges to 

sustainability of energy and the environment, and 

technology advances in information, 

communications, and automation technologies. 

Continues to develop methods and technologies to 

support implementation of Next Gen.

Creates new jobs right here on Earth – especially for 

the next generation of American scientists and 

engineers – by supporting cutting edge aeronautics 

and space technology innovations, education, 

research and development that will help fuel the 

nation’s economy for years to come. 

Builds on efforts proposed in the 2014 

Science, Technology, Engineering, and 

Mathematics (STEM) Education budget. Continues 

to reduce fragmentation and supports a more 

cohesive infrastructure for delivering 

STEM education and leveraging existing

resources to improve the reach of agency assets. 

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Anticipated Accomplishments 

in FY 2015

SLS/Orion: 

Complete 

analysis of 

Orion’s Test 

Flight (EFT-1) & 

design reviews

ISS: Increase utilization 

with science & 

technology payload 

hardware to 70 percent.

Asteroid 

Redirect 

Mission: Hold 

Concept 

Review

Launch 16 

science and 

ISS cargo 

missions 

Space Tech: 

Transform 

technology with 

several major inspace demos

JWST: Deliver 

primary mirror 

backplane and 

backplane 

support to the 

Goddard Space 

Flight Center.

Commercial 

Crew 

Program: 

Complete 

first phase of 

certification 

efforts with 

partners.

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Considerations

 Out-year Funding Assumptions. In this time of national fiscal austerity, 

NASA has accepted the challenge to manage to a modest inflation adjusted 

out-year top-line budget. Funding lines beyond FY 2015 are notional. 

Campaign to Promote Efficient and Effective Spending. This budget 

continues NASA’s efforts to improve operational efficiency and maintains 

reduced spending for service contracting, travel, supplies and materials, printing 

and reproduction, and IT services.

Aligning the NASA Workforce. 

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 Aligns human capital with the priority requirements of the Agency

 Minor reduction in FTE consistent with changing workforce needs

 Presentation in full-cost, where all project costs are allocated to the project, 

including labor funding for the Agency’s civil service workforce. 

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FY 2015 Budget Request 

Notional

FY 2013 FY 2014

Op Plan* Enacted** FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018 FY2019

Science 4,781.6 5,151.2 4,972.0 5,021.7 5,071.9 5,122.6 5,173.9

Earth Science 1,659.2 1,826.0 1,770.3 1,815.5 1,837.6 1,861.9 1,886.3 

Planetary Science 1,274.6 1,345.0 1,280.3 1,304.9 1,337.1 1,355.7 1,374.1 

Astrophysics 617.0 668.0 607.3 633.7 651.2 696.8 993.0 

James Webb Space Telescope 627.6 658.2 645.4 620.0 569.4 534.9 305.0 

Heliophysics 603.2 654.0 668.9 647.6 676.6 673.3 675.5 

Aeronautics 529.5 566.0 551.1 556.6 562.2 567.8 573.5 

Space Technology 614.5 576.0 705.5 712.6 719.7 726.9 734.2 

Exploration 3,705.5 4,113.2 3,976.0 4,079.9 4,061.2 4,119.5 3,673.4 

Exploration Systems Development 2,883.8 3,115.2 2,784.4 2,863.3 2,917.7 2,993.9 3,106.6 

Commercial Spaceflight 525.0 696.0 848.3 872.3 791.7 730.9 172.0 

Exploration Research and Development 296.7 302.0 343.4 344.3 351.8 394.7 394.7 

Space Operations 3,724.9 3,778.0 3,905.4 3,951.9 4,051.0 4,073.8 4,601.8 

Space Shuttle 38.8 3,680.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 

International Space Station 2,775.9 0.0 3,050.8 3,126.5 3,266.9 3,290.3 3,818.6 

Space and Flight Support (SFS) 910.2 97.7 854.6 825.4 784.1 783.5 783.2 

Education 116.3 116.6 88.9 89.8 90.7 91.6 92.6 

Cross Agency Support 2,711.0 2,793.0 2,778.6 2,806.4 2,834.4 2,862.8 2,891.4 

Center Management and Operations 1,991.6 0.0 2,038.8 2,059.2 2,079.7 2,100.5 2,121.6 

Agency Management and Operations 719.4 2,793.0 739.8 747.2 754.7 762.3 769.8 

Construction & Envrmtl Compl Restoration 646.6 515.0 446.1 379.0 382.7 386.6 390.4 

Construction of Facilities 589.5 515.0 370.6 302.7 305.7 308.7 311.8 

Environmental Compliance and Restoration 57.0 0.0 75.5 76.3 77.0 77.8 78.6 

Inspector General 35.3 37.5 37.0 37.4 37.7 38.1 38.5 

Grand Total 16,865.2 17,646.5 17,460.6 17,635.3 17,811.5 17,989.7 18,169.7 

*As reflected in the August 2013 Operating Plan, FY 2013 includes rescissions per P.L.113-6 Division G, Section 3001(b)(1)(B) 

and Division G, Section 3004(c)(1) and reductions due to sequestration per BBEDCA Section 215A.

**FY 2014 reflects funding amounts specified in P.L. 113-76, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, including amounts noted in 

the Explanatory Statement. Where amounts were not specified, no amount is shown in the budget table.

Note: Funds associated with out-year estimates for programmatic construction remain in programmatic accounts. 

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Opportunity, Growth, and Security Initiative

• While the President’s Budget adheres to the BBA’s discretionary funding levels for 2015, 

it is not sufficient to expand opportunity to all Americans or to drive the growth our 

economy needs. 

The BBA replaced half the sequestration cut for 2014 but just one-fifth of the scheduled 

cut in the discretionary funding level for 2015. As a result, taking into account 

unavoidable growth in other Federal programs and other factors, the BBA non-defense 

discretionary funding levels for 2015 are below the levels Congress provided in the 

bipartisan Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014. 

For that reason, the Federal Budget also includes a separate, fully paid for $56 billion 

Opportunity, Growth, and Security Initiative. 

NASA’s share of that Initiative is $885M and is designed to show how additional 

discretionary investments in 2015 can further enable the NASA mission while spurring 

economic progress, promoting opportunity, and strengthening national security.

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content can be found in NASA’s 

FY 2015 Budget Justification

Budget Authority (in $ millions) FY2015 

Science $187.3

Aeronautics $43.9

Space Technology $100.0

Exploration $350.0

Space Operations $100.6

Education $10.0

Construction of Facilities and Environmental 

Compliance Restoration $93.7

Grand Total $885.5 11 
NASA Mission Launches 

(Fiscal Years 2014 – 2020)

Dates reflect Agency Baseline Commitments

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Earth Science

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($M) 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Earth Science $1,770 $1,815 $1,838 $1,862 $1,886

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Launches the Soil Moisture Active and Passive 

mission (SMAP), and the Stratospheric Aerosol 

and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) to be 

mounted on the ISS. 

Formulates and develops ICESat-2, GRACEFollow On, SWOT, CYGNSS, TEMPO, and a 

sustained Land Imaging capability. 

Develops and implements plans for 

measurements of solar irradiance, ozone 

profiles, and Earth radiation budget. 

Maintains weather and climate change modeling capabilities to enhance 

forecast accuracy. 

Operates over 21 Earth-observing spacecraft.

Maintains robust R&A, airborne science (including IceBridge), technology 

development, and funds the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit 

the Environment (GLOBE) program.

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Planetary Science

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($M) 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Planetary Science $1,280 $1,305 $1,337 $1,356 $1,374

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Continues formulation and development of the InSight, Mars Rover 2020, 

and MOMA/ExoMars missions to Mars and the development of the robotic 

OSIRIS-REx mission to visit an asteroid and return a sample. 

Supports selection of the next mission in the Discovery program. 

Funds pre-formulation work for a potential mission to Jupiter’s moon, 

Europa.

Continues work on the STROFIO and JUICE instruments in collaboration 

with European Space Agency partner missions to Mercury and Jupiter, 

Operates 14 Planetary missions including 

New Horizons (Pluto), MAVEN & Curiosity 

(Mars), and Cassini (Saturn). 

Maintains a robust R&A program.

Maintains asteroid detection capabilities to 

identify and characterize potentially 

hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs). 

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Astrophysics

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($M) 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Astrophysics $607 $634 $651 $697 $993

Outyears are notional

Supports pre-formulation of WFIRST/AFTA, including 

technology development for detectors and coronagraph.

Supports a growing Astrophysics Explorer program with 

continued development of ASTRO-H, NICER, and TESS, 

and initiation of the next Small Explorer mission. TESS 

will continue the search for exoplanets, scanning all of the 

sky for exoplanets closer to Earth than those found by 

Kepler.

Supports operating missions: Hubble, Chandra, and other 

missions rated highly by the 2014 Senior Review.

Continues a competed astrophysics research program

and support of the balloon program. 

Seeks to work with current partner Germany and potential 

partners to identify a path forward for SOFIA with greatly 

reduced NASA funding. Unless partners are able to 

support the U.S. portion of SOFIA costs, NASA will place 

the aircraft into storage by FY 2015. 

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James Webb Space Telescope

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JWST $645 $620 $569 $535 $305

Outyears are notional

Supports the commitment to an October 2018 launch date.

Continues manufacturing of the 

flight sunshield structure and 

membranes. 

Completes and delivers the 

flight cryogenic cooler tower 

assembly.

Delivers the Optical Telescope 

Element flight structure.

Initiates integration of the 18 

flight primary mirror segments.

Conducts the final Integrated 

Science Instrument Module 

level cryo-vacuum test.

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($M) 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Heliophysics $669 $648 $677 $673 $675

Outyears are notional

Launches the MMS mission in FY 2015. 

Continues development of Solar Probe Plus 

(SPP) project in preparation for 2018 launch.

Continues Solar Orbiter Collaboration (SOC) 

partnership with ESA to measure properties 

and dynamics of solar wind.

Formulates ICON and GOLD, the recent 

Explorer selections. 

Supports the robust sounding rocket program 

as a testbed for new scientific techniques, 

scientific instrumentation, and spacecraft 

technology.

Operates over 19 Heliophysics missions (33 

spacecraft), and a robust research program.

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Joint Agency Satellite Programs

Joint Agency Satellite Division (JASD) within the Science Mission 

Directorate efficiently manages NASA’s fully reimbursable satellite and 

instrument development program, which currently includes NOAA funded 

missions. JASD offers the agencies a single interface for planning, 

development and management of their satellite projects. 

During FY 2015, NASA is committed to ensuring the success of critical 

space observations of the following reimbursable missions essential to the 

Nation:

 Solar Wind continuity mission, Deep Space Climate Observatory 

(DSCOVR) refurbishment.

Operations of geostationary operational environmental satellites 

(GOES) missions building four new GOES satellites.

Jason-3: instruments and launch vehicle. 

Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS): to include a series of advanced 

spacecraft, two satellites, five highly-sensitive instruments and a 

versatile ground system.

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Aeronautics $551 $557 $562 $568 $573

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NASA has developed a compelling strategic vision for aeronautics research. This 

vision led to six strategic thrust areas for research to enable NASA to be responsive 

to a growing demand for mobility, severe challenges to sustainability of energy and 

the environment, and technology advances in information, communications, and 

automation technologies. 

The strategic thrust areas are:

Safe, efficient growth in global operations

Innovation in commercial supersonic aircraft

Ultra-efficient commercial vehicles

Transition to low-carbon propulsion

Real-time system safety assurance

Assured autonomy for aviation transformation. 

This research will continue to support economic growth and high quality jobs, and 

advances in mobility and long-term sustainability within the aviation industry. And it 

continues to develop methods and technologies to support implementation of Next Gen.

As NASA completes the Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project the technologies 

that have been developed to simultaneously reduce fuel burn, community noise and 

emissions will be transferred for use by the aviation industry. 

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Space Technology 

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Space Technology $706 $713 $720 $727 $734

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Delivers innovative solutions that dramatically improve 

technological capabilities for NASA and the Nation including: 

Solar arrays, thrusters and power management for highpowered solar electric propulsion system supporting:

The Asteroid Redirect Mission

On-orbit transfer of satellites 

Increased power for satellites

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Completion of 7 launches in 24 months: 

Deep Space Atomic Clock for precise navigation 

Green Propellant higher-performing alternative to toxic hydrazine

Sunjammer Solar Sail to demo propellant-free propulsion

Four small spacecraft demos of pioneering new technologies

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A high-altitude, supersonic demo of advanced parachutes and inflatable entry, descent and 

landing tech to bring heavier payloads to Mars surface. 

Building bridges with academia to solve our toughest problems - over 400 activities through 

SBIR/STTR awards, Space Technology Research Grants, Flight Opportunities, Centennial 

Challenges - ensuring a steady pipeline of innovation into NASA’s missions. 

Functions of the Office of Chief Technologist, including agency technology transfer, Agency 

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Asteroid Mission/Initiative 

NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission will enable human 

rendezvous with an asteroid before 2025 and prepare 

for missions to Mars. NASA is committed to pursuing an 

affordable and feasible mission. This mission will 

leverage and align existing activities: 

– Asteroid observing efforts to identify and characterize 

asteroids (in Science); 

Demonstration of high power long life solar electric 

propulsion (in Space Technology);

Development of SLS rocket and Orion vehicle for 

human space flight beyond low Earth orbit (in 

Exploration Systems); and

Development of new technologies for exploration in 

deep space (in ISS and Exploration R&D).

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The Budget provides $133M for early development of 

the asteroid mission, including advancing solar electric 

propulsion and capture systems, and conduct of the 

Mission Concept Review in which the mission 

architecture will be established.

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Exploration Systems Development

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ESD $2,784 $2,863 $2,918 $2,994 $3,107

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Provides necessary funding for SLS, Orion and associated Exploration Ground 

Systems (EGS). 

Maintains the Orion on track for uncrewed

test flights in 2014 and FY 2018 and a first 

crewed flight in FY 2021-22.

Continues modifications to the Kennedy 

Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-B, 

Vehicle Assembly building and Launch 

Control Center to support FY 2018 launch. 

Begins planning for an asteroid mission. 

Note: Exploration Systems Development 

(ESD) construction funding of $52M million 

is requested in the Construction and 

Environmental Remediation account.

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Spaceflight $848 $872 $792 $731 $172

Outyears are notional

Facilitates development of U.S. commercial crew space 

transportation capability with a goal of achieving safe, 

reliable, and cost effective access to and from low Earth 

orbit and the International Space Station.

Regains American leadership and reduces our 

dependence on Russian spaceflight capabilities for crew 

transportation.

Builds on successes of the commercial cargo capabilities,

the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) activities, 

and Commercial Crew integrated Capability (CCiCap) 

activities. 

Ensures contracted services meet the Agency’s crew 

transportation system certification requirements.

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Exploration R&D $343 $344 $352 $395 $395

Outyears are notional

Includes the Human Research Program (HRP) and the Advanced Exploration 

Systems (AES) Program. 

HRP researches the human system to provide countermeasures, knowledge, 

technologies, and tools to enable safe, reliable, and productive human spaceflight 

missions. 

AES pioneers new approaches for rapidly developing prototype systems, 

demonstrates key capabilities, and validates operational concepts for future human 

missions beyond Earth orbit.

AES maintains critical competencies at the NASA centers and is seeking to 

increase the use of that expertise in public-private partnerships to work in 

collaboration with the outside entities. AES also partners with the Science Mission 

Directorate and Space Technology Mission Directorate on robotic missions and 

technologies that meet science and exploration objectives. 

Expands fundamental knowledge and develops advanced human spaceflight 

capabilities required to explore space in a more sustainable and affordable way. 

Continues investment in concepts for astronaut extravehicular activity (EVA) 

technologies including concepts for an EVA with an asteroid. 

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International Space Station

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ISS $3,051 $3,127 $3,267 $3,290 $3,819 

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Maximizes utilization of the ISS to support U.S. and International partners’ 

research and technology development, including establishing “open source 

science” platforms to advance Space Life and Physical Sciences research 

throughput on ISS. 

Enables:

Extension of station to at least 2024. (No additional 

budget required in FY 2015-2019)

ISS activities, including EVA and visiting vehicles. 

As-needed anomaly resolution and failure investigation. 

Development of hardware that supports research. 

Utilization of new hardware to perform 

plant research and investigate gravity effects on 

physiology and biology. 

Cargo resupply of the ISS.

In-space robotic servicing technologies such as 

autonomous rendezvous and docking, dexterous 

robotics, and advanced robotic tools for ARM, satellites, 

Orion, etc. 

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SFS $855 $825 $784 $784 $783

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Continues modernization efforts to provide capabilities and infrastructure for 

developing public and private space market. 

Funds space communication and navigation sustainment activities that endow 

capabilities to all missions through numerous networks. 

Supports government and commercial rocket 

propulsion testing at NASA test facilities. 

Ensures crew health and expertise for current and 

future missions by maintaining the U.S. astronaut 

corps with appropriate skills and experience. 

Provides safe, reliable, and cost effective launch 

services for NASA, Commercial and NASA-sponsored 

payloads using ELVs. 

Launch Services Program will manage 3 launches in FY 

2015 - Magnetospheric Multiscale, the Soil Moisture 

Active Passive, and NOAA’s Jason-3 missions. 

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Education

($M) 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Education $89 $90 $91 $92 $93

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Proposes education efforts within the Agency to 

support the principles of the Administration’s 

STEM reorganization and aligns education 

investments with the Five-year Federal Strategic 

Plan on STEM Education. 

Supports the Office of Education efforts that use 

competitive processes to fund the best education 

and public outreach programs within NASA and to 

coordinate closely with the CoSTEM agencies to 

broaden the reach of NASA’s capability to inspire 

and educate.

Continues the Agency’s investment in the Space Grant, EPSCoR, and 

MUREP. Also maintains a focus on Minority Serving Institutions and 

community colleges, which generally serve a high proportion of minority 

students and prepare them for entry into the STEM workforce and for study at 

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Cross-Agency $2,779 $2,806 $2,834 $2,863 $2,891

Construction & ECR $446 $379 $383 $387 $390

Outyears are notional

Cross-Agency Support

Funds ongoing management, operations and maintenance of nine field centers and 

associated major component facilities

Provides management and independent oversight of Agency missions, programs, 

functions, and performance of NASA-wide mission support activities

Maintains and ensures the availability and safety of critical capabilities necessary for 

advancing our space, air, and Earth-based activities including attracting and advancing 

a highly skilled, competent, and diverse workforce 

Construction and Environmental Compliance and Restoration

Funds repair, revitalization, demolition, and recapitalization projects that reduce the 

Agency’s footprint and provide efficient, modernized facilities

Constructs new or modified facilities to conduct NASA’s program missions

Manages NASA’s environmental clean-up responsibilities

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Acronyms

• AES: Advanced Exploration Systems

CCDev: Commercial Crew Development 

CCP: Commercial Crew Program

CRS: Cargo Resupply Services

CYGNSS: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System

DSCOVR: Deep Space Climate Observatory

ECR: Environmental Compliance and Restoration 

EGS: Exploration Ground Systems 

EFT: Exploration Flight Test

ELV: Expendable Launch Vehicle

EM: Exploration Mission

EPSCoR: Experimental Program to Stimulate 

Competitive Research

ESA: European Space Agency

ESD: Exploration Systems Development

EVA: Extravehicular Activity

EVI: Earth Venture Instrument

EVS: Earth Venture Sub-Orbital solicitation

FTE: Full Time Equivalent

GLOBE: Global Learning and Observations to Benefit 

the Environment

GOES: Geostationary Operational Environmental 

Satellite

GOLD: Global Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk

GPM: Global Precipitation Mission

GRACE: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment 

HRP: Human Research Program

ICESat: Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite

ICON: Ionospheric Connection Explorer

IRIS: Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph

ISS: International Space Station

JASD: Joint Agency Satellite Division

JPSS: Joint Polar Satellite System

JWST: James Webb Space Telescope

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LADEE: Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer

LDCM: Landsat Data Continuity Mission

LWS: Living With a Star

LSP: Launch Services Program

MAVEN: Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution

MMS: Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

MoO: Missions-of-Opportunity

MSL: Mars Science Laboratory

MPCV: Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

MUREP: Minority University research and Education Program

NOAA: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric 

Administration

NICER: Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer

NPP: NPOESS Preparatory Project

OCO: Orbiting Carbon Observatory

OSIRIS-Rex: Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource 

Identification Security Regolith Explorer

POES: Polar Operational Environmental Satellite

R&D: Research & Development

SAGE: Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment

SET: Space Environment Testbeds

SFS: Space and Flight Support

SLS: Space Launch System

SMAP: Soil Moisture Active-Passive Mission

SOFIA: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

ST: Space Technology

STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

SWOT: Surface Water and Ocean Topography

TCTE: Total Solar Irradiance Calibration Transfer Experiment

TDRS: Tracking and Data Relay Satellite

TEMPO: Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution

TESS: Transiting Exoplanet Survey satellite

WFIRST: Wide Field Infra Red Survey telescope (AFTA: 

Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets)

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