• For every dollar Oregon receives directly in Space Program funds, it receives $5 indirectly in Program-induced business • For every dollar North Carolina receives directly in Space Program funds, it receives $10 indirectly in Program-induced business The above analysis allows us to categorize the states which are directly or indirectly (or both) the major benefactors of the U.S. Space Program. These are shown in Figure 2. The states shaded in black include those which receive the major NASA prime contract awards and which have been traditionally assumed to be tied closely to the Space Program. The gray shading in this table identifies those states that benefit significantly on a per capita basis and/or indirectly from the Space Program and which have not traditionally been tied closely to the Program or to the NASA budget. Detailed Effects on Louisiana and Indiana While the above analysis gives useful summary data for the states, it is important to be able to examine a particular state in detail [8]. For illustrative purposes here we chose to simulate the detailed effects of NASA procurement spending on Louisiana and Indiana - these are summarized in Table 7. Louisiana benefits significantly from direct NASA procurement spending (in 1987 it ranked sixth in procurement awards), whereas Indiana does not. Table 8 shows the sales and employment created within selected industries in Louisiana and Indiana and Table 9 shows the distribution of the jobs created in the two states among major occupational categories. It is seen that the U.S. Space Program creates $426 million in sales and 3,900 jobs in Louisiana and $263 million in sales and 2,700 jobs in Indiana. Several points are worth noting. First, the industrial distribution of sales and employment is very different in the two states. Similarly, the occupational distribution of the jobs differs substantially in each state. Second, and more noteworthy, the difference between the direct and the indirect economic stimulus received in each state from the Space Program is striking: • in Louisiana $244 million in sales is generated directly and $182 million is generated indirectly, yielding a multiplier of 1.75 • in Indiana $22 million in sales is generated directly and $242 million is generated indirectly, yielding a multiplier of 12.0 This illustrates the complex and divergent impact that the Space Program has on the economies of different states.
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