NASA’s Human Landing System Among Top Priorities in Budget

Accelerating commercial development of the Human Landing System (HLS) — the spacecraft slated to send U.S. astronauts, including the first woman and the first person of color, to the moon — would be among top priorities in NASA’s fiscal 2022 budget request.

The administration is seeking $24.8 billion for the agency, $1.5 billion increase from fiscal 2021.

The request, “along with continued bipartisan support for NASA’s goals and missions, will empower NASA and the United States to lead humanity into the next era in exploration — an era in which government and the private sector partner to take us ...