In honor of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, we took a look at what NASA imports. Turns out the space agency has received about thirty waterborne shipments from overseas in the last two years.
Not surprisingly, phrases that appear most frequently in the descriptions of shipments to NASA include “electronic equipment”; “scientific equipment”; and “antenna.”
Does the small number of shipments from overseas suggest that NASA buys American? It would seem so. But it’s a safe bet that NASA‘s American contractors have global supply chains. After all, the globalization of high tech manufacturing is one of the many things that has changed in the last four decades.
