NASA Funding Would Include Money for Return Trip to Moon NASA would get $23.3 billion for its fiscal year 2021 budget, which was approved as part of a sweeping end-of-year bill passed after legislators hammered out their differences for $900 billion for COVID-19 relief. by Andrea Leinfelder, Houston Chronicle / December 23, 2020 Shutterstock/Christopher Halloran (TNS) — NASA would receive $23.3 billion for its fiscal year 2021 budget, which was approved late Monday as part of a sweeping end-of-year bill passed after legislators hammered out their differences for $900 billion for COVID-19 relief. Fiscal year 2021 began Oct. 1 and ends Sept. 30. NASA's funding is $642.3 million more than what was enacted in the prior year, but it fell short of the $25.2 billion requested by President