{"locations":[{"code":"USA","name":"United States","page":"https://macroscope.is/en/country/united-states/"}],"indicators":[{"id":"nasa_outlays","title":"NASA outlays","unit":"billion USD, current prices"},{"id":"nasa_share_federal_outlays","title":"NASA share of US federal outlays","unit":"% of federal outlays"}],"from_year":1950,"to_year":2100,"sections":[{"id":"dyn","title":"How the indicators changed","items":[{"kind":"dynamics","indicators":["nasa_outlays"],"text":"NASA outlays: 1.26 billion USD, current prices in 1962 → 24.58 billion USD, current prices in 2025 (×20). The trend broke around 1979 and 1991: +0.01 → +0.65 → +0.33 a year.","data":{"indicator":"nasa_outlays","from":1962,"to":2025,"first":1.257,"last":24.576,"breaks":[{"year":1979,"slope_before":0.00575,"slope_after":0.653},{"year":1991,"slope_before":0.653,"slope_after":0.326}]}},{"kind":"dynamics","indicators":["nasa_share_federal_outlays"],"text":"NASA share of US federal outlays: 1.18 % of federal outlays in 1962 → 0.35 % of federal outlays in 2025 (−0.8 pp). Peak: 4.41 % of federal outlays in 1966; the latest value is 92% lower. The trend broke around 1968 and 1974: +0.13 → −0.39 → −0.01 a year.","data":{"indicator":"nasa_share_federal_outlays","from":1962,"to":2025,"first":1.1767,"last":0.3505,"peak":{"year":1966,"value":4.4101},"breaks":[{"year":1968,"slope_before":0.132,"slope_after":-0.388},{"year":1974,"slope_before":-0.388,"slope_after":-0.0116}]}}]},{"id":"together","title":"What changed at the same time","items":[{"kind":"episode","indicators":["nasa_outlays","nasa_share_federal_outlays"],"text":"The fastest rise of \"NASA outlays\" was in 2013–2023: 16.98 billion USD, current prices → 25.32 billion USD, current prices. Over the same years: NASA share of US federal outlays 0.49 % of federal outlays → 0.41 % of federal outlays.","data":{"focus":"nasa_outlays","from":2013,"to":2023,"start":16.975,"end":25.321,"others":[{"id":"nasa_share_federal_outlays","from":2013,"to":2023,"start":0.4913,"end":0.4132}]}}]},{"id":"links","title":"How the indicators relate","items":[{"kind":"relationship","indicators":["nasa_outlays","nasa_share_federal_outlays"],"text":"NASA outlays and NASA share of US federal outlays (1962–2025, 64 years): levels are noticeably related, in opposite directions (r = −0.58); year-to-year changes are related too (r = 0.50). Changes line up from year to year too, which is more than a shared trend.","data":{"a":"nasa_outlays","b":"nasa_share_federal_outlays","from":1962,"to":2025,"years":64,"r_levels":-0.578,"r_changes":0.502,"effective_pairs_changes":33,"changes_significant":true,"lag":null}}]}],"caveat":"Moving together in time does not prove a cause: incomes, cities, education and the era itself act on many indicators at once. These observations suggest where to look, not what causes what.","view_url":"https://macroscope.is/en/chart/?c=USA&i=nasa_outlays,nasa_share_federal_outlays&from=1950&to=2100&past=1","how_to_read":"text: a ready sentence with numbers; data: the same numbers for calculations. The first indicator is the focus the others are compared with. Relationships are checked in levels (r) and in year-to-year changes (r_changes: the changes have their own linear trend removed; significance corrected for autocorrelation); lag is the shift at which changes line up best. UN errors: actual / projected − 1 for population, births and fertility, actual − projected for migration, life expectancy and mothers' age; IMF: actual − forecast. view_url opens the same view on the site."}