Here's a couple of lists:
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/tech_benefits.html
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?id=11358
Most people don't realize the amount of technology transfer that happens, or that NASA funds a number of grants and programs designed to advance technology. Like current efforts to create technology to enable supersonic aircraft with drastically reduced sonic booms, potentially someday enabling supersonic passenger transport jets. Or the NACA airfoil studies that began in the 1930s that are the basis for most aircraft wings. Or the X-plane programs that broke the sound barrier in the 1950s and are exploring hypersonic technology today. Or the weather satellites and technology that are the basis for most meteorology today. They do a lot more than just space.
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