Velcro, Teflon and Tang. Spin off inventions from the space program?

[El Supremo]

No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies#Mistakenly_attributed_NASA_spinoffs

[comradebillyboy]

1. I used to drink Tang. It was pretty good.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. i liked it too also.

[BigmanPigman]

3. They came out with grape flavor too.

I drank both growing up and ate 1-2-3 Jello. I think my tongue is still stained orange and purple.

[GaYellowDawg]

7. I loved grape Tang.

You can still get it online.

[ProudLib72]

8. Tang and Ovaltine

Not together, of course. Just the two iconic drinks from my generation.

[SeattleVet]

10. I was always sort of looking forward to them producing a prune flavor.

People have told me for years that there's nothing like a little 'prune-tang' in the morning to wake you up and get a smile on your face for the rest of the day.

Unless I mis-heard them.

[hatrack]

4. Teflon's from the Manhattan Project . . . . uranium enrichment, IIRC

Uranium hexaflouride, which is the gaseous form, is apparently hell on metal pipes and joints.

They had to come up with some sort of coating that would keep the enrichment cascades intact while running the Oak Ridge plant.

[Tribalceltic]

5. the link is a good article

The true depth of the effects of the Space program may never be known. Often the products are only a small percentage of the research that went into their development

[edhopper]

6. The most important

was the manufacturing of the silicon chip. Not practical at the time commercially, but needed for the Space Program.
Today's hi-tech world is a straight result from Apollo.

[Cartaphelius]

9. But hey, lest we forget,

the republican CLAIM that our government has never created a single income opportunity(I.E., JOBS).