National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

(2) NASA contracts sourced in the state in FY21; see FY21 NASA Economic Impact Report (3) Categories are not additive. For more information on FY21 Sample Obligations, please visit: NASA Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS)

(1) For more information please visit: Value of NASA 

NASA Overall State Impact(1)

• Jobs Supported 26,255

• Economic Output $5,023,561,000 

• State Tax Revenue $180,317,000 

Moon to Mars Campaign State Impacts

• Jobs Supported 14,639

• Economic Output $3,001,880,000 

• State Tax Revenue $106,611,000 

Investments in Climate Change Research & 

Technology State Impacts

• Jobs Supported 3,552

• Economic Output $549,035,000 

• State Tax Revenue $20,461,000 

Sample Obligations(3)

Business $1,072,803,436 

• Other Than Small Business $1,026,169,770 

• Small Business $46,633,666 

 – 8(A) Program $0 

 – Economically Disadvantaged Women 

 Owned Small Business $1,099,755 

 – Historically Underutilized Business 

 (HUBZone) $1* 

 – Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small

 Business $895,183 

 – Small Business Innovative Research $26,202,072 

 – Small Disadvantaged Business $4,939,403 

 – Veteran Owned Small Business $1,020,077 

 – Woman Owned Small Business $2,653,705 

 – Small Business Only $16,558,438 

Educational $115,216,524 

Government $35,952 

Non-profit Institutions $24,905,365 

Leading State-based NASA Business 

Contractors

Lockheed Martin Corporation $5,253,772 

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation $5,233,844 

Ch2M Hill, Inc. $4,268,850 

United Launch Alliance, LLC $3,806,374 

NanoRacks, LLC $3,230,164 

Leading State-based NASA Education Funding 

University of Colorado $107,608,765 

Colorado State University $5,779,743 

The Colorado School of Mines $1,581,471 

California Institute of Technology $247,773 

Space Grant Consortium 

University of Colorado, Boulder $865,300 

COLORADO

FY21 State Procurement Investments (2) $1.7 B

* Initial Purchase Order of $1 at time of Contract Award
For more information about the

Economic Impact Report

for your state, go to:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASA Headquarters

300 E Street, SW

Washington, DC 20546

www.nasa.gov/centers

www.nasa.gov

James Webb Space Telescope

Cycle 1 Hours of Access

NASA Astronauts

Nichole Ayers**

Vance Brand

Scott Carpenter

Gerald Carr

Matthew Dominick*

Jack Fischer

John Lounge

Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger

Kent Rominger

Stuart Roosa

John Swigert

There are 50 NASA federal jobs and 15,109* contractors 

in the state of Colorado. 

For every NASA federal job located in Colorado, an 

additional 524.1** jobs are supported in the state 

economy. For every million dollars’ worth of economic 

output generated by NASA federal jobs, an additional 

$206.2** million worth of output is sustained throughout 

the state economy. 

* Indirect effects are the purchases of goods and services by 

government agencies and private sector contractors, as well 

as by the industries that supply them.

** Multiplier based on IMPLAN Input Output (I-O) model. To learn 

more, please visit: https://blog.implan.com/understandingCOLORADO

26,255

NASA Jobs

Supported

* Current

** Candidate

NASA’s InSight Mars lander captured this image and 

shows InSight’s seismometer on the Red Planet’s 

surface. 

Ninety-one Colorado suppliers contributed to NASA’s Artemis 

program. An example of the state’s contributions is to provide 

material and machining for water jetting, a process that uses a 

high pressure water mixture to cut into thick plates of titanium for 

building Orion. 

Colorado Institutions

826.1

Hours