Hyperbole? That list doesn't even scratch the surface.
Ever know anyone who had a heart attack, needed a transfusion, cardiac monitoring, angioplasty, MRI, CAT scan, microsurgery, vascular surgery, mammography, biopsy, etc? The space program helped to revolutionize medicine.
Every part of daily life and the quality of medical care has products from the space program.
Would they have been developed without it? Some - maybe, others - probably not. Nothing is invented until there is a need - and space forced inventors to conceive the previously inconceivable. Nothing invented can ever hit the marketplace without venture capital.
Significant events in pioneering never had private funding. This country would not have been discovered, founded, fulfilled a sea to sea manifest destiny without state funding.
It takes a large vision to trail blaze in history and it needs the support of a society willing to thrive and grow to support it.
For this government, it is one of the few times it spends money on an investment and one the rare uses of taxes for the "general welfare."