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Space Operations

Program Information

Popular name

Space Operations

Program Number

43.007

Program objective

NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate is the heart of the agency’s space exploration efforts, enabling missions to low Earth orbit, the Moon, and beyond through communication and navigation, launch services, research capabilities, and crew health and support. SOMD manages NASA crewed space operations in and beyond low-Earth orbit (LEO) and commercial launch services. SOMD operates, and maintains exploration systems, develops and operates communications, and space transportation systems, and performs scientific research to enable sustained human exploration. In addition, SOMD is responsible for managing the space transportation services for NASA or NASA-sponsored payloads that require orbital launch, and the Agency's space communications and navigation services supporting all NASA space systems.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2024

    The Human Research Program (HRP) processed new awards for the 2024 Human Exploration Research Opportunity (HERO) Appendices A-D, with 11 awards selected.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

General and Special Conditions (Award Terms) NASA Grant & Cooperative Agreement Manual 2 CFR 1800 14 CFR 1274

  1. Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958. 51 U.S.C. § § 20113(e).

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Anyone/general public
  • Child (6-15)
  • Education (0-8)
  • Education (13+)
  • Education (9-12)
  • Education Professional
  • Engineer/Architect
  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Graduate Student
  • Health Professional
  • Individual/Family
  • Industrialist/ Business person
  • Interstate
  • Intrastate
  • Local
  • Major Metropolis (over 250,000)
  • Minority group
  • Native American Organizations
  • Other Urban
  • Other private institution/organization
  • Other public institution/organization
  • Preschool
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Profit organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization
  • Quasi-public nonprofit organization
  • Rural
  • School
  • Scientist/Researchers
  • Small Business Person
  • Small business
  • Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans)
  • Sponsored organization
  • State
  • Student/Trainee
  • Suburban
  • U.S. Citizen
  • U.S. Territories
  • Youth (16-21)

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