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SP-4213 THE HUMAN FACTOR: Biomedicine in the Manned Space Program to 1980

Appendix F

NASA'S LIFE SCIENCES PROGRAMS: FISCAL YEAR APPROPRIATIONS, 1961- 1 978

[378] The following two charts analyze NASA's life sciences budgets in relation to total agency appropriations for research and development and program office appropriations for research and development. These figures have been derived from NASA Budget History files, NASA History Office, and from congressional reports of NASA authorizations and appropriations The individual figures are reasonable approximations rather than exact totals, however, as budget figures were frequently revised, supplemented, and reprogrammed Moreover, NASA's budget requests for any fiscal year were actually requests that were to be programmed over three year periods, and the actual expenditures during any given year varied according to the programming The reader should note, in addition, that the figures for FY 1965-1971 do not reflect appropriations for space medicine inasmuch as space medicine was not a line item for budgetary purposes during those years. Space medicine received funds through several manned spaceflight program offices on an item-by-item basis; reconstruction of the actual space medicine allocations is virtually impossible. Further, life sciences appropriations before FY 1961 were limited to space medical operations within the Space Task Group and were not broken out for budgetary purposes.

[379] Chart 1. Life Sciences R&D Appropriations Compared to Total NASA R&D Appropriations, FY 1961-1978 (in millions of dollars).

Fiscal Year	NASA Total	Life Sciences Total	Life Sciences Percentage
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1961	670.5	5.0	0.7
1962	1151.0	13.3	1.2
1963	2514.8	34.3	1.4
1964	3011.9	56.5	1.8
1965	1047.9 ^a (OMSF: 2941.2)	41.8 ^b	3.9 ^c
1966	1071.8 ^a (OMSF: 3203.9)	49.3 ^b	4.2 ^c
1967	844.3 ^a (OMSF: 3024.0)	58.3 ^b	6.9 ^c
1968	881.6 ^a (OMSF: 2809.2)	61.6 ^b	6.9 ^c
1969	731.5 ^a (OMSF: 2177.5)	57.3 ^b	7.8 ^c
1970	792.0 ^a (OMSF: 2031.8)	41.6 ^b	5.3 ^c
1971	667.8 ^a (OMSF: 1431.0)	15.0 ^b	2.3 ^c
1972 ^d	1838.4	25.9	1.4
1973 ^d	1814.9	29.6	1.6
1974 ^d	1658.5	25.8	1.2
1975 ^d	2157.2	19.8	1.0
1976 ^e	1994.7	20.6	1.0
1977 ^e	2047.7	22.1	1.1
1978 ^e	2159.2	33.3	1.5

a Figure do not include OMSF R&D budget as space medecine figures unavailable.
b Figure do not include space medecine allocations.
c Percentages do not reflect adjustment for OMSF and space medecine figures; were these figures available, percentages probably would be much lower.
d Life sciences appropriations divided between OMSF and OSSA.
e Life sciences appropriations to OSSA Division of Life Sciences.

[380] Chart 2. Life Sciences R&D Appropriations Compared to Total R&D Appropriations for Individual Program Offices, FY 1962-1978 (in millions of dollars) ^a

Fiscal Year	OSSA			OART			OMSF
Fiscal Year	Total	Life Sciences	Life Sciences Percentages	Total	Life Sciences	Life Sciences Percentages	Total	Life Sciences	Life Sciences Percentages
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1962	361.2	3.1	0.9	91.6	2.4	2.6	563.1	7.9	1.4
1963	586.9	13.7	2.3	255.9	9.8	3.8	1503.6	10.8	0.7
1964	746.9	21.5	2.9	317.2	13.2	4.2	2713.1	21.8	0.08
1965	732.4	28.5	3.9	331.3	13.3	4.0	.	b	.
1966	783.2	34.4	4.4	288.6	14.9	5.2		b
1967	576.1	42.0	7.3	268.2	16.3	6.1		b
1968	552.9	41.8	7.6	318.7	19.8	6.2		b
1969	453.2	37.9	8.4	278.2	19.4	6.9		b
1970	519.7	19.7	3.8	272.3	21.9	8.0		b
1971	565.7	12.9	2.3	102.0	2.1	2.1		b
1972	552.9	6.1	1.1	.			1285.5	19.8	1.5
1973	679.2	6.1	0.9				1135.8	23.5	2.1
1974	602.0	4.8	0.8				1056.5	21.0	2.0
1975	417.3	4.8	1.2				1235.8	15.0	1.2
1976	434.1	20.6	4.7				.
1977	379.0	22.1	5.8
1978	405.7	33.3	8.2

a For FY 1961 and 1962, the Office of Life Sciences Programs was allocated $13.2 million for research and development, approximately 1.4 percent of the total R&D allocation for those two fiscal years authorized in 1961.

b Figures for allocations for space medecine research and development are not available for these years.