June 7, 2019 5:00PM 

# NASA Spending 

By [Chris Edwards](https://www.cato.org/people/chris-edwards) 

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President Trump is [tweeting about NASA](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/07/moon-landing-trump-says-nasa-should-focus-bigger-things/1383294001/) today. He is worried about “all of the money we are spending” on the agency.

It is $21 billion this year. The chart shows spending on NASA since 1970 in real or inflation-adjusted dollars.

![NASA Spending](https://infogram-thumbs-1024.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/b7c3071c-9d55-491e-a0c6-bf5eb093ab79.jpg) 

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[Tax and Budget Policy](https://www.cato.org/tax-budget-policy) 

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