The $9,700,000 requested for New Horizons represents less than 0.3% of NASA’s $3,380,000,000 planetary science budget.
NASA spent $9,500,000 on the New Horizons mission in 2022 and proposed spending $9,700,000 on the mission in its fiscal year 2024 budget proposal.
Alan Stern will ascend to an altitude of nearly 90 kilometers on November 2nd for a space mission.