Actually quite a bit of actual science that have gone into licensed technologies to other industries such as an implantable heart pump based on a shuttle fuel pump design and here’s a paper with over 120 others to peruse:
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/pdf/AIAA-2010-8885-305.pdf
Here’s another list of NASA tech spinoff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies