Flying to the moon gave us teflon
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But no Nasa, did not invented Teflon nor popularized Teflon. I remember ads for Teflon frying pan at the same time as the Apollo program. There is nothing unusual about it. Teflon was invented in 1938 more than 30 years before Apollo's moon landing. And there were mass market Teflon frying pan starting from 1956, the NASA did not even existed at that time.
This of course follows the point of the article amazingly well: Crypto developers didn't invent zero knowledge proofs, but they are bringing them into the mainstream and making them more available general software development.