You could just as easily say something like, if the moon shot had not diverted resources, we might have found a cure for cancer. You really don't know what might have been invented. Seems like inventing things that are useful on earth has always been a good motivation.
Is there anything there that you can show wouldn't have been invented without a moon shot?
On edit: Mylar was invented in the mid 50s. I looked it up. I'm sure I can find other facts which would refute these claims.
More edit: Integrated circuit was perfected by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments in 1958. Still no moon shot.
Still more edit: Communications satellites were proposed by Arthur C. Clarke in the 40s.
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