Can they get our astronauts off the ISS after Orange Mussolini cancels The Ketamine Kid’s SpaceX contracts? Stay tuned to find out! Either way, the rich will get richer and we’ll fund it all
The first two graphs here are the same format as the first two graphs of previous years, a two- and three-level Sankey diagram breakdown of budget line items for the President’s Budget Request for NASA for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26).
The last graph is a little different; it compares the first detail level of the FY26 request (right) to a previous year’s enacted budget (left). I chose the FY24 operational plan rather than the FY25 budget as the comparison budget because I was hoping to do some kind of comparison with an additional level of detail, and that data is not available for FY25 in the FY26 budget document (I suspect this is because there was no official FY25 budget, only a Continuing Resolution). I ended up running out of time and not making the additional graph, but the comparison basis decision was stuck. Due to the continuing resolution, the numbers for FY24 and FY25 are extremely similar, so it’s still a useful visualization.
The amount of money flowing from any given non-Exploration directorate in FY24 to Exploration in FY26 is somewhat arbitrary. It would technically be just as accurate to say all that money came from Science, and all the other directorates’ decreases went entirely to budget cuts, but I chose to distribute it proportionally to each directorate’s overall cuts.
![[OC] President's Budget Request for NASA, FY2026](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/4nlwvo3bd85f1-1024x614.png "[OC] President’s Budget Request for NASA, FY2026")
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Can they get our astronauts off the ISS after Orange Mussolini cancels The Ketamine Kid’s SpaceX contracts? Stay tuned to find out! Either way, the rich will get richer and we’ll fund it all
I guess this is a yearly series now. You can find previous iterations of this post here:
[FY25](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/11tfvl0/oc_presidents_budget_request_for_nasa_fy2024/)
[FY24](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/11tfvl0/oc_presidents_budget_request_for_nasa_fy2024/)
The first two graphs here are the same format as the first two graphs of previous years, a two- and three-level Sankey diagram breakdown of budget line items for the President’s Budget Request for NASA for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26).
The last graph is a little different; it compares the first detail level of the FY26 request (right) to a previous year’s enacted budget (left). I chose the FY24 operational plan rather than the FY25 budget as the comparison budget because I was hoping to do some kind of comparison with an additional level of detail, and that data is not available for FY25 in the FY26 budget document (I suspect this is because there was no official FY25 budget, only a Continuing Resolution). I ended up running out of time and not making the additional graph, but the comparison basis decision was stuck. Due to the continuing resolution, the numbers for FY24 and FY25 are extremely similar, so it’s still a useful visualization.
The amount of money flowing from any given non-Exploration directorate in FY24 to Exploration in FY26 is somewhat arbitrary. It would technically be just as accurate to say all that money came from Science, and all the other directorates’ decreases went entirely to budget cuts, but I chose to distribute it proportionally to each directorate’s overall cuts.
Data: FY 2026 President’s Budget Request Agency Technical Supplement [https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/fy-2026-budget-technical-supplement-002.pdf?emrc=68426to46ed7c49](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/fy-2026-budget-technical-supplement-002.pdf?emrc=68426to46ed7c49)
Tool: SankeyMatic [https://sankeymatic.com/build/](https://sankeymatic.com/build/)
Painfully beautiful I guess
1530M to 523M for astrophysics is so painful