NASA's budget allocation 1980-1989, by category
budget in each year. However, this changed in 1984 when the Spaceflight, Control and Data Communication department became the largest area of focus, receiving over 50 percent of all investment between 1984 and 1989.
In the first four years of the 1980s the area with the largest amount of investment was Spaceflight Research and Development, which received over 75 percent of the