[Nifster]

Apparently you are not informed. We have gained all kinds of new materials because the shuttle was built and used. There are additional improvements in communications technologies and in some medical areas that have been made.

Just because you don’t see them trumpeted in the headlines doesn’t mean they aren’t there

[oh8eleven]

So according to you, the 'gubmint gave us all these wonderful things that are SO wonderful you couldn't even name ONE specifically.
Even if what you said was true, I guarantee the private market would have invented/produced them cheaper and faster .... and the taxpayers would still have billions and billions of dollars in their pockets.