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Nasa’s own website lists several useful pieces of information about their spending, where the money is spent, and how the money is spent. Each individual state can be checked for NASA spending yearly easily, using the build in map button. There are links to PDF’s for each state to detail how NASA spend their money specifically in each state. The source easily and clearly shows how much of NASA’s budget is spent on each state. The source is obviously unbiased, as It’s simply direct data published by NASA, which is a federal organization. The information provided is shown in a simple manner, and is well organized, and is a primary source, so fact checking isn’t really needed. This source was included entirely for the statistics in the paper, and how I could apply the statistics easily. The source is up to date by almost all standards, since it us updated by NASA once their proposition to congress is approved, so that way they can spend their funds given by the Federal Government on projects they want. The site also lists several benefits from technology that NASA provides in our daily lives.
Dunbar, Brian. "NASA's Innovation Impacts Across the U.S." NASA. NASA, 2012. Web. 14 Nov. 2016.
The Budgetary Implications of NASA’s Current Plans for Space Exploration: this is a PDF published by congress showing highly detailed plans for NASA’s federal budget in the coming years. The Paper includes Detailed plans for the Orion Capsule development and testing, with a diagram of it on two different launch systems, as well as a theoretical lunar lander. The paper was published in 2009, and shows several different scenarios with different budgets given to NASA for this project. All of these schedules are off by a wide margin, as they include ISS support ending in 2015, and yet we have continued service for the ISS into 2020. There are several contingency plans for NASA. The paper then shows serval graphs, which break up the estimated budget into different costs and what they will be used for, and how this 2009 stimulus will benefit research. The paper also includes the space shuttle’s retirement and how that will expand NASA’s budget. It also reviews the Orion spending plan compared to other ways of using the budget, and how the costs are expected to rise as time goes on. The paper supports the statement with a graph showing how the past 72 projects have grown beyond their allocated budget. The paper also includes the “slowest case” scenario, which extends the space shuttle to 2015 (did not happen) and the ISS to 2020 (did happen)
United States. Congressional Budget Office. The Budgetary Implications of NASA's Current Plans for Space Exploration. Washington, D.C: Congressional Budget Office, 2009. University At Buffalo Libraries. Web. 15 Nov. 2016.
This source is a PDF of a presentation sheet that was at a NASA press conference. The first page is an infographic with statistics about NASA spending on different industries in the US, such as research, manufacturing, as well as other industries. The Presentation then shows how NASA’s budget is broken down in general, which is 80% to NASA exclusive programs, such as research, space programs, and such. The other 20% is spent on programs that are shared with other agencies (like the air force) and Educational programs. Most of NASA’s budget that is spent on exclusive programs is spent on research, which is made public and free shortly after it is completed and checked. The document Covers more parts of NASA’s spending on programs and specifically breaks down costs of each program. It also goes into new research such as Nanotechnology and robots for the research section. It then breaks down the Manufacturing part of the budget, which Is quite large, since building massive telescopes and rockets takes a significant amount of time and money.
The Tauri Group. “NASA Socio-Economic Impacts.” NASA Socio-Economic Impacts, NASA, Apr. 2013, www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/SEINSI.pdf.
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/SEINSI.pdf
The Apollo program is a huge example of NASA Benefitting all of mankind, as the sheer amount of hours poured into the program provided thousands of jobs across the US. This source provides an in depth account of many of the benefits and what we learned from the mission. The article also goes into detail about the mission itself, and how it helped benefit mankind. The source starts with the background of the Apollo program, starting with the ideas behind it as well as how the funding was obtained, and the US mission goals. It then goes into the mission itself, the days before the launch, and how the crew felt. The article then details the launch of the Apollo crew towards the moon, and as well as once Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. The source then ends shortly after, with the following Apollo missions listed in minor detail. This source is relatively new, and is through History.com, which is a fairly reputable source. The source has more links on the page itself leading to different pages that have to do with space exploration and NASA in general, and those could easily be used.
History.com Staff. “Apollo 11.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2010, www.history.com/topics/apollo-11.
This source provides a short list of products from NASA, and more importantly, has a much longer list also included. The list however has a broken link to NASA’s website, but it does list 25 common items that were either developed directly by NASA, or were developed by partner companies of NASA, or finally were developed thanks to new tech from NASA. Most of these items are in use in everyone’s daily life either directly or indirectly, and the benefits of them can be easily seen. The article also includes Tiger woods, and how Tech in random industries was developed thanks to NASA, including metal used for golf clubs Some of the tech listed isn’t that important, and other’s listed are used mostly in either medicine or situational. But the tech existing is important for most people, as with expensive medical procedures, such as CAT scans and MRI’s, the one time you do use it, it may save your life. The source has several broken links and is certainly non-academic, but is an interesting look at the benefits of NASA coming from a more fiscally concerned news outlet. This source was to diversify the opinions that NASA is beneficial from just science journals and the Organization itself
Spector, Dina. “20 Everyday Things We Have Because Of NASA.” Business Insider, Business Insider, Inc, July 2012, www.businessinsider.com/everyday-items-developed-by-nasa-2012-8.