Space Technology Inspires Better Fitting Lenses

Yet another bogus 'NASA spin-off'.

For decades NASA has been taking credit for new materials, technologies, and products invented by companies that NASA had nothing to do with. NASA didn't order this opthalmic machine, and they had nothing to do with the engineering of it. NASA had a small contract with a company for a machine it (NASA) needed for testing materials on the ISS. Discovering that the machine could be used for testing lenses was done by the CEO of the company, unrelated to anything NASA was doing.

Yet - once again - NASA is trying to take credit away from a small company for this discovery. Whether it is 'Tang', or Velcro, or some miniature process for making power supplies, NASA is quick to grab credit for someone else's work.

If someone sneezed within 200 miles of a NASA lab, NASA would take credit for inventing handkerchiefs.