Michael McCulloch wrote in message . ..
Did anyone else see Astronomy magazine's Michael Bakich on CNN today?
Were these really the only two things he could come up with that
resulted from the Apollo program? Yeah, that's worth $750 billion.

Huh? Velcro was already being used in commercial products circa
mid-1950s;
I had a Velcro front fastener on one of my Winter jackets back then,
before
even the US Army launched the USA's first satellite, Explorer I, on
Jan. 31,
1958. In fact, I believe I wore that jacket for that occasion (which
used a modified Redstone as a launch vehicle -- My Dad was involved
with that).

In other words, the Apollo program didn't even exist when Velcro was
already
a household word.