2016年2月9日,奥巴马政府公布了2017财年预算案,其中为NASA申请的经费总额为190.25亿美元,比2016财年的最终预算拨款少了2.6亿美元。NASA的两大探测项目SLS火箭和Orion飞船计划的经费将有明显减少。SLS项目申请的预算为13.1亿美元,比2016财年拨款低了近7亿美元; On February 9, 2016, the Obama administration announced its 2017 fiscal year budget, with a total of US $ 19.025 billion for NASA applications, a decrease of 260 million dollars from the final budget for FY16. NASA’s two exploration projects SLS rockets and Orion spacecraft program funding will be significantly reduced. The SLS project has a budget of $ 1.31 billion, nearly $ 700 million less than the 2016 FY16 appropriation;