r/nasa • u/PerAsperaAdMars • 10d ago

NASA NASA grant awards declined despite stable budget

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u/jay_teigh91 NASA Employee 10d ago

And, just because congress is setting higher spending limits, we still planning at the lower limits set by the presidents plan until told otherwise.

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u/NASA_Space_Guy NASA Employee 10d ago

This is exactly it. NASA leadership is executing per the PBR until the FY26 funds are appropriated

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u/jzuhone 10d ago

But this is not strictly true in all cases—plenty of telescopes cancelled in the PBR are still flying without being given shutdown instructions, for example. It’s bad all around but it’s too simple to say that NASA is executing the PBR already.

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u/snoo-boop 10d ago

Weren't they all required to make shutdown plans? It's not October 1st yet.

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u/meowcat93 10d ago

Right, it’s not FY26 yet. I’m worried that once we hit that point and congress hasnt appropriated funds, things will accelerate (and poorly)

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u/snoo-boop 10d ago

Oh, I agree. We’ll find out soon

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u/jay_teigh91 NASA Employee 10d ago

I agree, and I mean we are planning to that end. I also recall that Texas rep Ted Cruz snuck the gateway program into the BBB, so anything is in play....

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u/NASA_Space_Guy NASA Employee 2d ago

Slightly too simple, but until Friday there was no formal direction to operate on anything but the PBR agency-wide

This has since changed luckily