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human
Where do we get the "every dollar we spend on space, the U.S. economy receives $8 of economic benefit" data?

I've been trying to find where this figure has come from. All space advocacy forums and articles use it, but how did they calculate it? Where is the data?

Edit: So what i have learned is that this data is, for the most part, bullshit. So I was wondering, how do you quantify space exploration in terms of arguments for it?
gpt
This was asked before, but the data was used irresponsibly. It said for every dollar spent in R&D, you would expect to see around $8 of ROI. They took this and specialized it to space research without any thought of how space would be profitable.