The Space Report is compiled from independently sourced existing data from all space activities—civil, commercial, and national security. Space activities accounted for about $180 billion in government budgets and industry revenues worldwide in 2005. United States publicly-traded space businesses, as evidenced by the performance of the newly created Space Foundation Space Index, out-performed both the NASDAQ and S&P 500.
 
The Space Report was synthesized from carefully scrutinized public and private information sources and interviews with industry leaders. All information was validated through the assistance of a peer review panel. Quantitative information came from many sources and reflected published data. These data were compiled from various sources using different methodologies, so care was taken to describe methods and potential conflicts, disconnects, double-counting, or missing data. The objective in producing The Space Report was to establish a credible baseline of data that filled the previous void, was reliable and (to the extent possible, given available data) internally consistent, and kept pace with rapidly evolving products and services. The result was more than 170 pages of authoritative content, rich with tables, charts, graphs, photographs, and more than 450 detailed citations and endnotes.
 
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