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National Aeronautics and Space Administration obligations in Tennessee

The published join of National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Tennessee is $149,657,356.20 across 121 awards on USAspending.gov. Code 080 is the agency key. Correlation is not causation, and $1,236,837.65 is arithmetic rather than a typical flight-center or lab award.

Key figures

  • USAspending cell: NASA × Tennessee = $149,657,356.20.
  • 121 records, about $1,236,837.65 each as a mean.
  • Outlays and fiscal-year splits are unpublished here.
  • Flight-research folklore is unlabeled because no center column exists here.
  • No contractor names in this packet; geography is statewide Tennessee.

One cell: National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Tennessee

Two filters produce $149,657,356.20: awarding agency 080 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and place-of-performance Tennessee. Drop either filter and the total changes. Space-center, flight-research, and aerospace-lab folklore can explain a search click; it does not add a third numeric key.

121 is a mid-size list of recorded actions, not a count of unique centers or contractors. Modifications can add rows without adding new vendors. The overlay remains the place to inspect live rows.

Open National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Tennessee for the filtered table, Tennessee federal spending for the next hub, National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

121 records without an instrument mix

Keep $1,236,837.65 labeled as a mean. Do not call it a typical flight-center or lab award in Tennessee. Typical would require a distribution, and the packet has only a sum and a count. The live table remains the overlay.

The source note is unchanged: USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.

Statewide Tennessee, not a Marshall-adjacent map

National Aeronautics and Space Administration is National Aeronautics and Space Administration without a state filter. Tennessee federal spending is Tennessee without an agency filter. This slug is the intersection. Citing the nationwide NASA book as if it were Tennessee's $149,657,356.20 cell is a misread of the join.

No metro split of Nashville, Knoxville, and Memphis is published here. Awards coded to Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, or Arkansas are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Nashville. The overlay path already encodes both the state tag and agency 080.

The extract has no fiscal year

$149,657,356.20 records commitments tagged to National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Tennessee. Payments, recoveries, and cancellations would live in other fields. This extract does not publish those fields.

121 actions can include modifications that change a prior obligation. That is why a record count is not a unique-project census. Use National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Tennessee for the live table. Agency 080 is the awarding-agency key stored on that overlay.

Public records, not a NASA ranking

The join is descriptive. $149,657,356.20 does not prove that Tennessee received too much or too little National Aeronautics and Space Administration money, and it does not prove that National Aeronautics and Space Administration activity caused local outcomes. No performance metric is in the packet.

Campaign-finance filings do not fund this USAspending cell. National Aeronautics and Space Administration obligations in Tennessee and FEC receipts that mention similar words are separate public records. This page does not merge them. Unique centers or contractors are unpublished here, so none are invented.

Reusable NASA–Tennessee facts

National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Tennessee remains the place to verify the live rows. All spending ties is an index of joins, not a hidden total that already includes $149,657,356.20. Place-of-performance Tennessee is statewide; it does not split Nashville, Knoxville, and Memphis. Neighbor-coded activity in Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, or Arkansas stays out even if mail is handled in Nashville. Correlation is not causation. Space-center, flight-research, and aerospace-lab folklore can be a legitimate research question on another page. Here it is labeled folklore because the packet has no NAICS, CFDA, or program column. Tennessee-valley, smoky-mountain, and mississippi-bluff folklore is the same kind of reader path: useful for search, unused as math. Agency 080 on a different state's overlay is a sibling join, not a remainder that must add to a national NASA budget on this page. Tennessee's $149,657,356.20 cell stands alone. Do not subtract it from National Aeronautics and Space Administration and call the difference 'Tennessee versus everywhere else' without a published national total in this packet — there is none. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the awarding-agency label stored on the Tennessee overlay; the numeric key is 080. Readers who only remember the short name NASA still need both the state tag and the agency tag before quoting $149,657,356.20. The 121 figure is not a count of unique centers or contractors and is not a count of distinct NASA programs. Modifications can add rows without adding new vendors. That is another reason the mean of about $1,236,837.65 is not a typical flight-center or lab award. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. This file copies overlayTarget /states/tn/agencies/080/ and canonicalPath /ties/national-aeronautics-and-space-administration-in-tennessee/ from the packet. It does not add a fiscal year, a contractor, or an FEC dollar. If the live overlay later disagrees with $149,657,356.20 or 121, trust the table and treat this prose as dated to the extract. Until then, the reusable facts are $149,657,356.20, 121 awards, agency 080, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Tennessee (TN), and the obligation unit.

Questions

What is the NASA obligation total for Tennessee?
USAspending.gov records $149,657,356.20 in obligations for awarding agency 080 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) with Tennessee place of performance, covering 121 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not National Aeronautics and Space Administration's nationwide budget. The pair is a join, not a ranking.
Is the NASA Tennessee mean a typical lab award?
The extract lists 121 award actions totaling $149,657,356.20. Average obligation per award is about $1,236,837.65, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical flight-center or lab award. Unique centers or contractors are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.
Does the Tennessee NASA cell split Knoxville from Memphis?
No. $149,657,356.20 and 121 awards are statewide Tennessee place of performance. This packet does not split Nashville, Knoxville, and Memphis. Awards coded to Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, or Arkansas are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Nashville. The geography key remains TN.
Which page filters NASA (080) to Tennessee?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Tennessee is the overlay. Tennessee federal spending shows all agencies in the state. National Aeronautics and Space Administration shows agency 080 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.

USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.