You have NASA to thank for wireless headphones and vacuum cleaners

many people see space exploration as a waste of resources. Of course, there is the counterargument that scientific discoveries have intrinsic cultural value, that space-related initiatives often drive international cooperation, or that the space sector has crucial technological and economic importance.

But the most effective argument might be to simply point out the plethora of everyday objects that would not exist without spatial research. NASA spin-off—a section of the U.S. space agency’s technology transfer program—compiles nearly all of the commercial technology that has originated in U.S. space research. It reveals that no space program has had a greater impact on everyday life than the Apollo lunar missions.