&#62; <i>The Internet</i><p>Huh? I thought APRANet was a DARPA project, not a NASA project.<p>&#62; <i>LED's</i><p>The word 'NASA' is found nowhere on this page: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED</a><p>&#62; <i>integrated circuits</i><p>Jack Kirby (He was working for Texas Instruments at the time and later won a Nobel Prize for it)<p>&#62; <i>CNC Machining</i><p>General Motors, General Electric, etc (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnc_machining" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnc_machining</a>)<p>{edit} According to the Apollo project Wikipedia page, it looks like integrated circuits and CNC machining may have been driven by the project, though there is no mention on the respective pages (revisionist history on the Apollo page, or missing info on the other pages).<p>{edit2} A better page for reference would be: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Spinoff" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Spinoff</a><p>According to that page, NASA did <i>not</i> contribute to 'LEDs' as people would understand the term on HN (i.e. they did not invent the little lights that go blinky-blinky on consumer electronics). It seems to be talking about high-intensity LEDs for medical applications. In that vein, saying that the Apollo program gave us 'LEDs' is somewhat misleading (though maybe not on purpose).<p>I notice that 'The Internet' is only mention as linked to some 'Internet-powered oven.'