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In its third agency-wide economic impact report, NASA highlighted how its Moon to Mars activities, climate change research and technology development, and other projects generated more than $75.6 billion in economic output across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., in fiscal year 2023.
“To invest in NASA is to invest in American workers, American innovation, the American economy, and American economic competitiveness,” says NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “Our work doesn’t just expand our understanding of the universe — it fuels economic growth, inspires future generations, and improves our quality of life. As we embark on the next great chapter of exploration, we are proud to help power economic strength, job creation, scientific progress, and American leadership on Earth, in the skies, and in the stars.”
Combined, NASA’s missions supported 304,803 jobs nationwide and generated an estimated $9.5 billion in federal, state, and local taxes throughout the United States.
The study found NASA’s Moon to Mars activities generated more than $23.8 billion in total economic output and supported an estimated 96,479 jobs nationwide. For investments in climate research and technology, the agency’s activities generated more than $7.9 billion in total economic output and supported an estimated 32,900 jobs in the U.S.
Additional key findings of the study include:
Every state in the country benefits economically through NASA activities. Forty-five states have an economic impact of more than $10 million. Of those 45 states, eight have an economic impact of $1 billion or more.The agency’s Moon to Mars initiative, which includes the Artemis missions, generated nearly $2.9 billion in tax revenue. These activities provided about 32% of NASA’s economic impact.The agency’s investments in climate change research and technology generated more than $1 billion in tax revenue.Approximately 11% of NASA’s economic impacts are attributable to its investments in climate change research and technology.NASA had more than 644 active international agreements for various scientific research and technology development activities in the 2023 fiscal year. The International Space Station, representing 15 countries and five space agencies, has a predominant role in the agency’s international partnerships.In fiscal year 2023, NASA oversaw 2,628 active domestic and international non-procurement partnership agreements, which included 629 new domestic and 109 new international agreements, active partnerships with 587 different non-federal partners across the U.S., and partnerships in 47 of 50 states.NASA Spinoffs, which are public products and processes that are developed with NASA technology, funding, or expertise, provide a benefit to American lives beyond dollars and jobs. As of result of NASA missions, our fiscal year 2023 tech transfer activities produced 1,564 new technology reports, 40 new patent applications, 69 patents issued, and established 5,277 software usage agreements.Scientific research and development, which fuels advancements in science and technology that can help improve daily life on Earth and for humanity, is the largest single-sector benefitting from NASA’s work, accounting for 19% of NASA’s total economic impact.
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NASA Funds Open-Source Software Underpinning Scientific Innovation
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NASA Funds Open-Source Software Underpinning Scientific Innovation
NASA has awarded $15.6 million in grant funding to 15 projects supporting the maintenance of open-source tools, frameworks, and libraries used by the NASA science community, for the benefit of all.
The agency’s Open-Source Tools, Frameworks, and Libraries awards provide support for the sustainable development of tools freely available to everyone and critical for the goals of the agency’s Science Mission Directorate.
“We received almost twice the number of proposals this year than we had in the previous call,” said Steve Crawford, program executive, Open Science implementation, Office of the Chief Science Data Officer, NASA Headquarters in Washington. “The NASA science community's excitement for this program demonstrates the need for sustained support and maintenance of open-source software. These projects are integral to our missions, critical to our data infrastructure, underpin machine learning and data science tools, and are used by our researchers, every day, to advance science that protects our planet and broadens our understanding of the universe.”
Foundation awards:
- NASA’s Ames Research Center, Silicon Valley, California
- Principal investigator: Ross Beyer
- “Expanding and Maintaining the Ames Stereo Pipeline”
- Caltech, Pasadena, California
- Principal investigator: Brigitta Sipocz
- “Enhancement of Infrastructure and Sustained Maintenance of Astroquery”
- Cornell University, Scarsdale, New York
- Principal investigator: Ramin Zabih
- “Modernize and Expand arXiv’s Essential Infrastructure”
- NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
- Principal investigator: D. Cooley
- “Enabling SMD Science Using the General Mission Analysis Tool”
- NumFOCUS, Austin, Texas
- Principal investigator: Thomas Caswell
- “Sustainment of Matplotlib and Cartopy”
- NumFOCUS
- Principal investigator: Erik Tollerud
- “Investing in the Astropy Project to Enable Research and Education in Astronomy”
Sustainment awards:
- NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Southern California
- Principal investigator: Cedric David
- “Sustain NASA’s River Software for the Satellite Data Deluge,” three-year award
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park
- Principal investigator: David Radice
- “AthenaK: A Performance Portable Simulation Infrastructure for Computational Astrophysics,” three-year award
- United States Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia
- Principal investigator: Trent Hare
- “Planetary Updates for QGIS,” one-year award
- NASA JPL
- Principal investigator: Michael Starch
- “How To F Prime: Empowering Science Missions Through Documentation and Examples,” three-year award
- NASA Goddard
- Principal investigator: Albert Shih
- “Enhancing Consistency and Discoverability Across the SunPy Ecosystem,” three-year award
- Triad National Security, LLC, Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Principal investigator: Julia Kelliher
- “Enhancing Analysis Capabilities of Biological Data With the NASA EDGE Bioinformatics Platform,” four-year award
- iSciences LLC, Burlington, Vermont
- Principal investigator: Daniel Baston
- “Sustaining the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library,” three-year award
- University of Maryland, College Park,
- Principal investigator: C Max Stevens
- “Sustaining the Community Firn Model,” three-year award
- Quansight, LLC, Austin, Texas
- Principal investigator: Dharhas Pothina
- “Ensuring a Fast and Secure Core for Scientific Python – Security, Accessibility and Performance of NumPy, SciPy and scikit-learn; Going Beyond NumPy With Accelerator Support,” three-year award
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