Dr. Lindsay DeMarchi – Analysis of the U.S. Federal Budget for Civil Space, Jun 2025

The main topic of the document is the review of the U.

S. federal budget for civil space for the fiscal years 2023 to 2025. The document provides a basic dataset for analyzing the civil space budget. It examines projects supporting or utilizing space activities for civil purposes, distributed across more than 100 positions in 17 federal departments and agencies. The total appropriations for civil space in 2025 amount to approximately $44 billion, with 58% allocated to NASA. The second part of the report offers a new organization of budget data into six national priority areas, highlighting the importance of space activities in various sectors.