[aaronbrethorst]

From 2011:

Robert Siegel: "As NPR's Peter Overby reports, Capitol Hill has always been deeply involved in NASA's activities, and sometimes seem to regard NASA as a jobs program, as well as a space program."

Overby: "This year [2011], according to federal contract data, NASA will buy goods and services in 396 of the 435 congressional districts."

https://www.npr.org/2011/07/20/138555781/congressional-suppo...

From 2019:

"NASA will often highlight the fact that its SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft support aerospace suppliers. For example, this agency website details the number of suppliers in every US state and says, 'Men and women in all 50 states are hard at work building NASA's Deep Space Exploration Systems to support missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.' There are 106 suppliers in Alabama, alone, according to NASA's site."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/an-alabama-represent...