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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

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.

Thanks for the links.


Why Every Dollar Spent on NASA Adds $10 to the Economy
https://www.thebalance.com/nasa-budget-current-funding-and-history-3306321

A report by the Space Foundation estimated that activities related to space contributed $180 billion to the economy in 2005. More than 60 percent of this came from commercial goods and services created by companies related to space technology. The space economy includes commercial space products and services. It also includes commercial infrastructure and support industries. In addition, it includes U.S. government space budgets outside of NASA. Here are eight examples.

Department of Defense
National Reconnaissance Office
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Department of Energy
Federal Aviation Administration
National Science Foundation
Federal Communications Commission
United States Geological Survey

The space economy also counts aerospace budgets in private companies.............................

For all it does, NASA receives just 0.4 percent of the $4.407 trillion FY 2019 federal budget