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An example of such a project would be the Apollo Program of the National Aeronautics And Space Administration ''(NASA)'', which according to some estimates, put between $11 and $21 into the U.S. economy for every Federal dollar invested. NASA was given the specific Mandate of putting a man on the moon, but in the process of solving the technical hurdles of creating a vehicle that could safely transport humans there, research was done on Miniaturization , new materials, and many other frontier areas of technology, leading to new applications such as Personal Computers , Teflon , and the Artificial Heart .