• “NASA released findings from an impact review, which found the U.S. space agency’s economic output is three times the size of its annual budget.
  • “We’re trying to point out just how penetrating, and almost incalculable, this [agency’s] economic impact is,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told CNBC.

“Nelson argued that the economic impact report actually undersells the agency’s value to the U.S. economy. He cited examples like pharmaceutical research on the space station, calculating soil moisture for agriculture, or using satellites to identify trees that may be diseased and could cause a forest fire.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/27/nasa-annual-economic-output-is-triple-its-budget-study.html