NASA SHOWS THE WAY! The necessity of astronauts to be strapped down during the "violent" take-off of a manned rocket invokes the development of the voice-controlled computer. You can see this in the take-off of the 2002 film, Space Cowboys, directed by Clint Eastwood (also the lead). As pilot, strapped-down for take-off, Eastwood's character calls out directions to the computer to activate certain events and processes for the take-off -- events and processes of a type initiated hands-on in jet plane take-off. This voice-control programming is now available in offices and especially for the disabled.
Long before this innovation, the need for Ground Control to assess the physical state of astronauts in "flight" led to the application of computer-graphing in of hospital patients in intensive care.
And others may indicate similar automated processes introduced by NASA which have benefited the "non-NASA world".
Meanwhile, critics of NASA have argued that "human-managed flights" are unnecessary -- that this could all be done by computers and automation in "unmanned flights". Suggestions at this Website -- especially the file "MEASURING HUMAN MANAGEMENT" -- may provide means of testing this claim.
However, I presently make this point to say that this argument should be applied to much of the management of our corporations and companies and Federal bureaucracies. If it can work for NASA in this respect, it can work in the "non-NASA world", as so many of NASA innovations already do. This would be the greatest return for our "NASA money" that we can ask -- barring future spatial surprises.
The file, "LEAN MANAGEMENT INVESTING", suggests how we might initiate this "epiphany".