JSC News Release Log 1990/90-017
Johnson Space Center Contributes $973 Million to Houston Area Economy in FY89
NASA's Johnson Space Center contributed approximately $973 million to the Houston area economy in Fiscal Year (FY) 1989 ending Sept. 30. This is an increase of $400 million over the previous year. JSC received $1.9 billion, or about 17 percent of the $11 billion appropriated for the agency's FY89 total.
The center's expenditures locally included $157 million in federal salaries, $3 million in air travel, and $812 million in goods and services from over 100 local businesses, averaging $3.7 million for each working day.
The major portion of JSC's budget, $1.6 billion, went for Research and Development (R&D) and Space Flight Control and Data Communications. Research and Program Management (R&PM), covering everything from salaries, gas and electric utility bills, and mowing the grass, took $301 million. Facility construction accounted for the remaining $14 million.
Utility costs for the center for FY89 were $1.6 million for gas, $7.4 million for electricity, $6.8 million for (phone and electronic) communications, and $300,000 for the purchase of surface water and sewage treatment.
Since moving to Houston in 1962, total JSC funding from NASA equals $37.3 billion in actual dollars through Sept. 30, 1989. That total includes $3.9 billion for R&PM, $33 billion for R&D, and $351 million for construction of facilities overall in the past 28 years.
JSC spent $1.10 billion in FY89 with both Texas firms and out-of-state companies that pay salaries to employees in their Texas operations. That places Texas third behind California ($2.7 billion) and Florida ($1.2 billion) in states receiving NASA funds for contracts or grants. Maryland ranks fourth ($753 million) and Alabama fifth ($699 million). JSC has paid out $2.6 billion in civil service salaries since 1962.