SP-4012 NASA HISTORICAL DATA BOOK: VOLUME IV
NASA RESOURCES 1969-1978
 

Table 6-1. Distribution of Research and Development Budget Plan by Installation and Program Office: FY 1978 (in thousands of dollars)

 

Installation

Space Transportation Systems

Space Science

Space and Terrestrial Applications

Aeronautics and Space Technology

Tracking and Data Acquisition

Total Budget Plan

. .

Ames Research Center

(Percentage of total budget plan)

470

(0.4)

55,317

(49.1)

7,048

(6.3)

49,803

(44.2)

-

-

112,638

(3.7)

Flight Research Center a

(Percentage of total budget plan)

760

(4.1)

140

(0.7)

67

(0.4)

14,463

(77.8)

3,154

(17.0)

18,584

(0.6)

Goddard Space Flight Center

(Percentage of total budget plan)

66,734

(13.7)

88,631

(18.2)

127,363

(26.1)

5,303

(1.1)

199,211

(40.9)

487,242

(16.2)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

(Percentage of total budget plan)

475

(0.2)

85,261

(42.8)

29,132

(14.6)

26,877

(13.5)

57,626

(28.9)

199,371

(6.6)

Kennedy Space Center

(Percentage of total budget plan)

169,312

(99.5)

92

(0.1)

730

(0.4)

-

-

-

-

170,134

(5.6)

Langley Research Center

(Percentage of total budget plan)

16,276

(10.3)

12,498

(7.9)

9,903

(6.2)

119,994

(75.6)

-

-

158,671

(5.3)

Lewis Research Center

(Percentage of total budget plan)

38,903

(28.9)

874

(0.7)

3,286

(2.4)

91,487

(68.0)

-

134,550

(4.5)

Manned Spacecraft Center b

(Percentage of total budget plan)

913,647

(94.3)

22,016

(2.3)

27,306

(2.8)

6,074

(0.6)

-

-

969,043

(32.2)

Marshall Space Flight Center

(Percentage of total budget plan)

511,067

(82.1)

85,473

(13.7)

17,314

(2.8)

8,767

(1.4)

-

-

622,621

(20.7)

National Space Technology Laboratories c

(Percentage of total budget plan)

16,100

(80.3)

50

(0.3)

3,890

(19.4)

-

-

-

-

20,040

(0.7)

Wallops Station d

(Percentage of total budget plan)

-

-

6,118

(38.1)

3,543

(22.1)

953

(5.9)

5,444

(33.9)

16,058

(0.5)

NASA Headquarters

(Percentage of total budget plan)

17,756

(17.3)

48,230

(47.0)

14,318

(14.0)

9,479

(9.2)

12,865

(12.5)

102,648

(3.4)

. .

TOTAL

(Percentage of total budget plan)

1,751,500

(58.2)

404,700

(13.4)

243,900

(8.1)

333,200

(11.1)

278,300

(9.2)

3,011,600

(100.0)

 

a Renamed Dryden Flight Research Center in 1976.
b Renamed Johnson Space Center in 1973.
c Established as an independent NASA field installation in 1974.
d Renamed Wallops Flight Center in 1974
 
Source: NASA Budget Estimates, 1980.

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