National Aeronautics and Space Administration obligations in Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05)

NASA × MA-05 is a research-and-contract join, not a Route 128 roster

This page is a join: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) as awarding agency, and Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05) as congressional district place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations to $1,489,960,462.97 on 307 awards. The join is awarding-agency 080 crossed with an MA-05 location field, not Massachusetts’s entire civil-space budget and not a named-center or university roster. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district received more, and not a claim that 307 awards equal 307 missions, labs, or unique contractors.

DoD space work, NSF science, or NASA-coded awards in MA-07 sit outside this total unless they also carry agency 080 and MA-05. Mixing those books into $1,489,960,462.97 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and STEM employment is not causation. Payroll and facility headcounts are not in the packet. Place of performance as MA-05 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $1,489,960,462.97 in a district treasury. Cambridge-versus-inner-suburb folklore is not a geography split in this packet.

307 awards behind $1.49 billion

Mean obligation is about $4,853,291.41 if $1,489,960,462.97 were divided evenly across 307 lines. That ratio is not a published mission cost and not a typical university grant. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of missions, labs, or unique vendors. Three hundred seven awards against a $1.49 billion cell is a moderate NASA file inside a much larger district parent.

The overlay can list named lines; this narrative will not invent centers or primes. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open Massachusetts 5th District for the stored district table. Do not convert 307 into a map of Massachusetts 5th District laboratories. The $1,489,960,462.97 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on the overlay rather than inferring a center census.

Massachusetts 5th District, not a Cambridge-to-suburbs space rollup

Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05) is one geography tag on USAspending awards, not a commuting zone and not a metro list. Awards tagged to MA-07, MA-06, or another Massachusetts district are out even if the campus sounds related. Recipient address can differ from that district tag. The district parent in this extract is $35,808,517,228.83 across every awarding agency; $1,489,960,462.97 is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration slice — about 4.2% of that parent by arithmetic. Subtracting is tempting; this page still does not publish the leftover agency list.

A statewide NASA figure on Massachusetts federal spending mixes every district. Do not rank MA-05 against neighboring districts as a winner or loser. Other Massachusetts district cells are other joins. Massachusetts federal spending is the statewide book without a district filter. Adding statewide National Aeronautics and Space Administration dollars to $1,489,960,462.97 would double count. Campaign-finance filings are a different public-record system; this join does not claim donations funded these obligations.

Agency 080 obligations are not missions already flown

NASA awards often obligate as contracts and assistance rows and draw as work proceeds. The $1,489,960,462.97 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of flights completed and not a Treasury outlay total. A civil-space procurement dashboard dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses agency 080, MA-05 geography, and the obligation metric.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the nationwide agency book without a MA-05 filter. This extract does not split science from exploration, and it does not split centers from primes. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 307 awards, agency 080, and Massachusetts 5th District. This page will not invent a share. Unique recipients remain unpublished.

What the MA-05 NASA table omits

The extract has no center names, primes, or mission titles. Facts remain $1,489,960,462.97, 307 awards, agency 080, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05), and district parent $35,808,517,228.83. Mission folklore belongs on another extract if it appears at all. Keep the obligation label. Later ingests can revise both the dollars and the 307-award count; prefer the live table when the overlay and this snapshot diverge.

Where the NASA × MA-05 pair lives

Start with Massachusetts 5th District for the district rollup that contains this National Aeronautics and Space Administration cell. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the nationwide agency listing. Massachusetts federal spending gives Massachusetts context without a MA-05 filter. All spending ties indexes other two-key joins on the same obligation metric. 307 awards totaling this cell remain an administrative file, not a launch calendar. Keep both National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05) in every citation sentence. Do not recast $1,489,960,462.97 as cash already paid or as Massachusetts’s entire space appropriation. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join.

Questions

How much NASA spending is obligated in Massachusetts 5th District?

USAspending.gov shows $1,489,960,462.97 in National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) obligations with Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05) as place of performance, across 307 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district’s full $35,808,517,228.83 parent. Other agencies sit outside this join unless they also carry 080.

Do 307 awards mean 307 NASA contractors in MA-05?

No. Award count is a row count of National Aeronautics and Space Administration actions tagged to MA-05. It is not a vendor or mission census. Mean obligation of about $4,853,291.41 is a quotient of $1,489,960,462.97 and 307, not a typical contract.

Does this NASA cell include NSF science in MA-05?

No. This page is awarding agency 080 only. NSF lines are other joins. $1,489,960,462.97 is about 4.2% of the Massachusetts 5th District parent $35,808,517,228.83 by arithmetic — a small slice of a large district book.

Is the MA-05 NASA total already paid as outlays?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $1,489,960,462.97 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Claim draws and remaining balances are not published here.