Much of the renewable energy industry (I.E. effective solar and light, robust batteries) can at least be partially to NASA. When you pick a goal like getting to the moon building a largely self-sustaining space station, or setting up a colony on Mars, the sheer quantity of problems that need to be solved will probably have 2nd order effects of solving practical real world problems that directly effect people’s lives.
I think NASA’s spinoff technologies are only a small portion of the real technological improvement space development has created. Especially if you consider 2nd order effects (problems that could only have been solved once a previous problem without much commercial application was solved at NASA) and the increased expertise that is then applied to other industries.
Much of the renewable energy industry (I.E. effective solar and light, robust batteries) can at least be partially to NASA. When you pick a goal like getting to the moon building a largely self-sustaining space station, or setting up a colony on Mars, the sheer quantity of problems that need to be solved will probably have 2nd order effects of solving practical real world problems that directly effect people’s lives.
I think NASA’s spinoff technologies are only a small portion of the real technological improvement space development has created. Especially if you consider 2nd order effects (problems that could only have been solved once a previous problem without much commercial application was solved at NASA) and the increased expertise that is then applied to other industries.
https://spinoff.nasa.gov