During the next 5 years the National Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to double the number of scientists and engineers in this area, 5,, to increase its outlays for salaries and expenses to $60 million a year; 6, to invest some $200 million in plant and laboratory facilities; 2, and to direct or contract for new space efforts over $1 billion from this center in this city.
The total private-sector outlays on R&D were perhaps $300 million, and almost surely under $500 million, meaning that the decade-long R&D outlays were likely recouped in a few weeks of drug sales.
