The Senate Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee approved $19.5 billion for NASA in FY2018 according to a committee press release. The figure was rounded, but the press release also said it is $437 million more than President Trump requested and $124 million less than FY2017. That would make $19.529 billion a more precise figure.

The request was $19.092 billion. NASA’s FY2017 funding level is $19.653 billion.

The House Appropriations Committee was more generous, approving $19.872 billion. The bill has not gone to the House floor for debate yet.

Only a few details were released by the Senate committee following the markup today. More information will be available after the full committee marks up the bill on Thursday.

The press release highlighted these programs: