Forty years later, while preparing forthe historic anniversary, NASA began a frantic searchfor those images after a well-publicized loss of the original video of the Apollo 11 landing.
There are hundreds of technologies that got their start at NASA. You can search through the database for different categories from consumer to medical to transportation.
Perhaps the most famous effort in the hunt for alien life is theSearchfor Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti), once funded in part by US space agency Nasa, which continues to listen to and look around the cosmos for signs of intelligent civilisations elsewhere.