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Data through Aug 2026 · updated

What Washington spends on space: NASA’s contracts and grants month by month since 2007, what they buy, and the Space Force’s budget accounts since it began, from USAspending.gov.

FlatNASA awarded $22.9B in FY2025 (+7.1%), while the Space Force, now bigger at $30.6B, fell 3.2%. Together they grew 1.0%.

Watch: Next year's budget requests: NASA's science and exploration lines and the Space Force's procurement accounts.

What changed NASA by month and the Space Force by account

  • NASA, August 2026+$0.2B +6.8%
  • NASA, July 2026−$0.5B −18.3%
  • NASA, June 2026+$0.6B +35.9%
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Every headline number4 readings with their changes
NASA awards, FY2025$22.9B+7.1% vs the year beforeContracts, grants and other awards NASA committed
NASA, last three months$7.0B+4.2% vs a year earlierJune 2026 to August 2026
Space Force, FY2025$30.6B−3.2% vs the year beforeObligations across its five appropriation accounts
Space Force on R&D65.6%Share of Space Force obligations going to research, development, test and evaluation
About the dataUSAspending.gov · U.S. federal data · daily

NASA figures are award obligations (contracts, grants and other awards) from USAspending.gov, by month and by complete fiscal year. Space Force figures are obligations of its five appropriation accounts (057-3620, 057-3022, 057-3410, 057-3510, 057-1010) since they began in FY2021. Launch counts will be added once the data’s publisher confirms commercial use.

Source: NASA award obligations, USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Space Force federal accounts (fiscal year snapshots), USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury.

How the takeaway is decided

  • Growing or Shrinking: spending moved more than 3% on the year before. Mostly R&D: over 50% of Space Force money goes to research.

The words and colours come from these rules, applied to the newest data on every update; they describe the data and are not advice.