#BlueMoon: Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin will land on Moon by 2024

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NASA invented digital image processing for the Apollo missions which is central to CT and MRI medical imaging.
In the 1970s NASA partnered with Honeywell to create a device that would detect smoke and toxic gas for Skylab.
Tenuous isn’t the word. Directly created is what it is.

But these things didn’t actually require the going-to-space part. Xerox PARC did a lot more and all they needed was an office building and a few nerds. The Vietnam War made direct advancements in hospital emergency rooms that have certainly saved more people than the Vietnam War cost, but that doesn’t mean we should do more Vietnam Wars.