In its budget proposal for the 2022 financial year (FY), the new US administration of President Joe Biden has included some $24.7-billion for the country’s space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa). This would represent an approximately 6.3% increase over the agency’s allocation during FY2021. The US federal government’s financial year starts on October 1 and ends on September 30. Under the US system, budgetary authority is vested in the Congress; administrations propose budgets but the legislature decides budgets, and the final budgets often vary from what Presidents actually requested.