>>1644653Also that is only a small list of inventions that came about because astronauts needed things that weren't necessary on earth. There are many more, also there is a lot of research done on the ISS because of zero gravity.
>By all accounts it's in your best interest for the third world to improve as the worldwide economy would grow incredibly and quality of life would also improve, maybe even just as much as with the whole "lets go to space" planI disagree entirely with the impact as well as the third world benefiting my people in the first world. I also do not believe that the third world would be able to just turn around, the US alone has dumped trillions of dollars, infrastructure and decades of experts time into Africa and we have yet to see their societies turn around.