How has NASA benefited the United States?
* NASA has the smallest budget of the major agencies in the federal government, less than 1 percent since 1977. * NASA has expanded human knowledge through a program of exploration and discovery. * Virtually every aircraft utilizes technology pioneered by NASA. Aeronautics is one of the nation ‘s strongest industries, employing almost one million Americans. * The U.S. aerospace industry generates over $40 billion in annual exports and $30 billion in positive balance of trade each year. * New industries have been built on space technology, including personal computers, advanced medical equipment, communications satellites, weather forecasting and natural resource mapping. * NASA’s high-technology research and development generates jobs, the demands for goods and services, and new technologies in the private sector. * Many NASA technologies contribute to research in education, transportation, pollution control, rain forest protection and health care. For a sample of these see the NASA pu
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- How has NASA benefited the United States?
