The rise and fall of NASA’s budget

NASA The rise and fal of NASA's budget Launar missions Mars missions Space missions Satellites Lines refective of distance, but not to scale due to the large distances invloved I NASA budget I NASA budget as % of US spending 1958 59 60 61 62 72 73 74 1 12 13 14 2015 100m 01 02 2,500m |.48 1.35 1.21 0.98, 5.000m 4.41 3 0.85 0,83 0.77 0.75 0. 10.000m 15.000m 20,000m US US Infrastructure www.americainfra.com INFRASTRUCTURE Source: NASA.gov | Guardian.co.uk NASA Budget Selected NASA Missions Explorer 1 first satellite launched by the US Pioneer 4 makes lunar flyby of the Moon TIROS 1 • first meteorological satellite Alan Shepard first American to fly in space John Glenn first American to orbit the Earth Mariner 4 63 first successful fly-by of another planet - Mars 64 Gemini IV in space for four days with Edward H. White I| performing the first spacewalk by an American. Apollo 8 first humans to escape from the gravitational field of planet Earth, by traveling to the far side of the moon and back Apollo 11 the first lunar landing mission and moon walk Apollo 13 oxygen tank in the service module ruptured and damaged several of the power, electrical, and life support systems. All crew members returned safely to Earth. Skylab first US space station Apollo 17 was the last of the six Apollo missions to the Moon Viking 1 mission to Mars, landed there on 20 Jul. 1976 Voyager 2 unmanned interplanetary space probe, flying by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune First flight of Space Shuttle Columbia 2. Space Shuttle Challenger destroyed and its seven crew members lost. Magellan mission to Venus it arrived in Sept. 1990 mapping 99 percent of the surface Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope Mars Pathfinder rover landed on Mars 95 Expedition One of the International Space Station launched from Kazakhstan Space Shuttle Columbia broke up in the atmosphere 15 minutes before its scheduled landing. All the crew members were lost during reentry. 2 Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, landed on the surface of Mars in the span of 3 weeks. New Horizons a obotic spacecraft mission currently en route to the dwarf planet Pluto