Back in the Apollo days, yeah, it was about $7 per dollar, and a large bit of that was weapons. Today, it may be as high as $40 per dollar and largely pays off in things that we use daily. None of the sensors we take for granted in a smartphone would exist without space development.
NASA has brought you everything from velcro, to strain detectors, to the sensor that tells your headphones they're on your head.
I'd bet a lot of that ROI in GDP is just weapons though
Back in the Apollo days, yeah, it was about $7 per dollar, and a large bit of that was weapons. Today, it may be as high as $40 per dollar and largely pays off in things that we use daily. None of the sensors we take for granted in a smartphone would exist without space development.
NASA has brought you everything from velcro, to strain detectors, to the sensor that tells your headphones they're on your head.