[MarkL]

I do not think that the economy got a boost from Space Exploration at all. At most it redistributed the wealth thru tax & spending and pork barreling.

We also had important improvements, not only to technology, but to our daily lives as well.

For instance,

Mark

[Osnome]

Really!
I did not know that TANG was invented by the space program, I thought that the astronauts merely drank that lousy stuff.

As for the nutrition bars, well that looks like blatant merchandising.