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> What tangible benefit have we gotten from the space station and other space missions?

> Well-known products that NASA claims as spinoffs include memory foam (originally named temper foam), freeze-dried food, firefighting equipment, emergency "space blankets", DustBusters, cochlear implants, LZR Racer swimsuits, and CMOS image sensors.

Plenty more in this well written list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies

Thanks! This is what I was looking for.

"What is the use of a newborn child?" - Ben Franklin

An enormous amount of human achievement comes from basic research that didn’t have an immediate obvious use case.

Relativity gives us GPS, for example.