--- title: President Trump Signs Bill Authorizing NASA Funding and Mars Exploration | TIME description: President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Tuesday that updates NASA's mission to add exploration of Mars and authorizes $19.5 billion in spending for the U.S. space agency for the current budget year. canonical: https://time.com/video/P9e8aNQC/ og:title: President Trump Signs Bill Authorizing NASA Funding and Mars Exploration og:description: President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Tuesday that updates NASA's mission to add exploration of Mars and authorizes $19.5 billion in spending for the U.S. space agency for the current budget year. og:url: https://time.com/video/P9e8aNQC/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/P9e8aNQC/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Signs Bill Authorizing NASA Funding and Mars Exploration twitter:description: President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Tuesday that updates NASA's mission to add exploration of Mars and authorizes $19.5 billion in spending for the U.S. space agency for the current budget year. twitter:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/P9e8aNQC/poster.jpg?width=720 --- # President Trump Signs Bill Authorizing NASA Funding and Mars Exploration > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: President Trump Signs Bill Authorizing NASA Funding and Mars Exploration [Watch (HLS stream): President Trump Signs Bill Authorizing NASA Funding and Mars Exploration](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/P9e8aNQC.m3u8) (1:26)  _Published 2017-03-21. President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Tuesday that updates NASA's mission to add exploration of Mars and authorizes $19.5 billion in spending for the U.S. space agency for the current budget year._ --- Jul 27, 2023 9:39 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [NASA’s Insight Mission Explained](/video/XQqydRyU/) ### NASA’s Insight Mission Explained [NASA's Next Mission](/video/kc7EDltB/) ### NASA's Next Mission [NASA's Chief: 'Survival Of Human Race' Depends On Mission To Mars](/video/jXF93nNv/) ### NASA's Chief: 'Survival Of Human Race' Depends On Mission To Mars --- ## Transcript For almost six decades NASA's work has inspired millions and millions of Americans to imagine distant worlds and a better future right here on earth. I'm delighted to sign this bill, it's been a long time since a bill like this has been signed. Reaffirming our national commitment to the core mission of NASA. Human space exploration, space science and technology. With this legislation we support NASA scientists, engineers, astronauts and their pursuit of discovery. We support jobs. It's about jobs also. This bill calls for ongoing medical monitoring and treatment of our heroic astronauts for heath conditions that result from their service. It's a pretty tough job. I don't know, Ted would you like to do it? I don't think I would. Marco, you want to do it? I'm not sure we want to do it. You could send Congress to space. [ LAUGH ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] So we'll hold that up Lot of pages. Look at the pages in here. It's a lot. 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