NASA is being funded more than it has been in a while

[_Augustus_]

The NASA Authorization Act is funding NASA $19.5 billion in 2017, $500 million more than they asked for. The last time NASA had this much funding was in 2010.

[Spaceception]

Moar funding!

Also, didn't planetary sciences or something like that get defunded again?

[DerekL1963]

It's not the total budget that matters...  it's where Congress directs the money to be spent.   If they directed that extra money be spent on the Senate Launch System (for example), then they might as well have stacked up a pile of dollar bills and burned them for all the good it will do.