Progress National Aeronautics and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Space Administration anchors the aerospace industry in Alabama. Marshall is managing development of NASA’s Space Launch System, which will be the most powerful rocket ever built. This heavy lifter will take astronauts deeper into space than ever before: beyond the moon, Located inside the gates of Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Marshall teams support NASA to asteroids and on to Mars. Marshall Space Flight Center and partner organizations with more than 125 unique and specialized facilities and labs. The center manages missions from space The center is also developing advanced, affordable Alabama launch systems to experiments on the space systems and technologies that enable International Space Station, and exploration astronauts to live and work safely in the harsh space Economic of our solar system and the universe environment — whether in the space station’s active beyond. research facilities or during long-term, deep-space 2012 Impact expeditions yet to come. By partnering with industry, academia and And we are developing robust science missions to other government agencies, the people at expand understanding of our planet, the solar system Marshall accomplish great things, moving and the universe beyond. our region and our nation forward.
Marshall Profile 2011 • $2.5 billion FY 2011 budget
Analyzing the Deadly Cryogenic Testing Complete on First • $2.8 billion FY 2009 economic Alabama Tornadoes James Webb Telescope Mirrors impact in Alabama
• $42.4 million FY 2009 local and state income, sales and property taxes STS-135: The Announced Design for Deep Successful J-2X Engine • Nearly 6,000 employees (civil Final Voyage Space Launch System Combustion Stability Test U S A service and contract, including Michoud Assembly Facility in
marshall New Orleans) 2012 • 3rd largest employer in the Construction on Building 4220 International Space Station Began — A Greener Campus for Payload Operations Center Marks People Huntsville area Marshall’s Future 11th Anniversary Learn more about Marshall people, progress and partnerships. Visit • Marshall employees contributed National Aeronautics and Space Administration Progress www.nasa.gov/marshallatwork. $730,000 to the community George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL 35812 through the Combined Federal www.nasa.gov/marshall Campaign Partnerships www.nasa.gov NP-2012-04-32-MSFC 8-529779
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2012 Alabama Economic Impact
2,600 5,900 Marshall volunteers inspire students to pursue Science, civil service indirect 22% Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers. small business
Jobs: 8,500 Statewide Contracts: NASA Budget: $817,000,000 Students Reached: 12,000 less than half of 1%
of federal budget $261 million in $265 in civil service indirect salaries salaries
Earnings: $526,000,000 Alabama Taxes Paid: $42,000,000 Small Business Innovation Research Grants: $30,000,000 Research: $37,000,000 Marshall’s to 31 Alabama companies Economic Impact in Alabama (FY 2009) Giving Back = $730,000 Technology Spinoffs 91% $2,880,000,000 Helping Alabamians Huntsville: one of PhD the Top 10 Smartest Cities in the World Cleaning Oil Spills – Forbes (12/09) Masters From Land
38% 28% BS/BA 22% Healing Technology for Cancer Patients
Through the 2011 Combined Federal Campaign, Marshall team U.S. AL Huntsville MSFC Alabama: 5th in the Nation members contributed approximately
$730,000 and supported more than visit and for a list of data sources, 4-year Degree or Higher for Federal R&D High-Pressure Systems www.nasa.gov/marshallimpact 40 activities with more than 1,425 to Suppress Fires in Seconds Alabama ranked 5th in the U.S. for receiving the most Federal hours of service during MSFC: A Very Smart Place research and development (R&D) funds due to the state’s high Community Service Days. more information about this content For share of federal space- and defense-related R&D.