Many people have seen space exploration as a waste of resources. Of course, there is the counter-argument that scientific discoveries have intrinsic cultural value, that space-related initiatives often increase international cooperation, or that the space sector is of great technological and economic importance. .

But the most effective argument might be to point out the many everyday things that wouldn’t exist without space research. Spinoff of NASA—a section of the US space agency’s technology transfer program—compiles nearly every commercial technology that has come out of US space research. It revealed that no space program had a greater impact on everyday life than the Apollo lunar missions.