As the countdown to July’s golden anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission grows louder, so attention will focus on the benefits of the programme that put Neil Armstrong on the moon.
The space race spawned, among other innovations, improved fire-resistant clothing, freeze-dried food technology, rescue blankets, and even the Dustbuster portable cordless vacuum cleaner (the unlikely fruit of a computer program to cut the power consumption of lunar drills).
The spin-off with the widest application, though, was a framework for modern management, which blasted off from the same launch pad after John F Kennedy set the ambitious goal of a moon landing in 1961.
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