3. Space travel - billions spent - achievement ???
If you're not narrowing it to manned, GPS satellites for example, those would seem to have some impact on modern life.
The Apollo program led to the development of microprocessors & there is also a theory that it resulted in the end of the Cold War - America's success in the race to the Moon led the Soviets to believe that they were technologically capable of almost anything so when Reagan began the Star Wars program they believed it would also succeed and realised they couldn't compete, financially or technologically.
The pictures of the Earth brought back from the first missions to the Moon arguably led to the nascent conservation movement as it was the first time Man saw our planet for what it was, a tiny oasis in space.
The entire cost of Apollo from 1961 - 1972 was less than one year of spending on the Vietnam war (at its peak), every dollar spent on advanced science & engineering here on Earth, it wasn't just money packed into rockets & blasted off into space. The spinoffs from this technology has helped to transform modern life.
The USA's Skylab project conducted science & Earth observation from low orbit, just one deposit of copper it discovered was valued at more than the entire program.
I could go on!!
I agree with the rest of your list though.