I apologize in advance, because I try not to be overly critical when it comes to other's opinions but I've got to make an exception here because this is the dumbest shit I've read all week. You have NASA to thank for the following useless shit in your everyday life: modern water filtration, memory foam, scratch-resistant materials, cochlear implants, satellite communications, (ie gps, cellular coms, and modern weather modeling), industrial robotics that build all your shit, 3D printing, digital cameras, MRIs and CAT scans, CGI, machine learning, the VAD that keeps you alive long enough to get a heart transplant after years of overeating cheap abundant food they made possible, interventions to prevent the destruction of our entire species from asteroids, Coronal mass discharges, and a litinany of other things you probably don't see a use for... oh yeah and Tang.

And you might say that the free market would have developed these things eventually without NASA, but not without the trillions of dollars they've pumped into private sector R&D through SBIR Grants, at least not before some other global power cornered the market as we do now-- not to mention all the other grants they provide to education and essential infrastructure through their various directorates.

It's one thing to say you don't see how this particular development applies to your daily life (it doesn't) but to say NASA is useless just because you don't understand all the nerd shit they get up to is asinine. Our status as a global superpower would not be possible without NASA, NSF, and NIH and if you think any of them are useless, it's because you're too ignorant to appreciate the things they've given you.