Federal Spending Record: What NASA Has Paid For
What has NASA actually paid for in low Earth orbit, and how much has gone to commercial stations?
Chapter summary
NASA prime contracts and indefinite-delivery vehicles since FY2008 for the station developers and the ISS transport and operations providers, from USAspending.gov, classified by purpose. Funded Space Act Agreements are not in this record.
Key takeaways
- 1
NASA has obligated about $46.4B on ISS operations and transport contracts with these companies, against $204M on commercial station contracts.
- 2
Axiom’s largest NASA contracts are for spacesuits ($554M), not its station.
- 3
The final RFP’s firm-fixed-price contracts will bring station development into the contract record for the first time.
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