Got it! Apollo, ergo cell phones.  If you lock a bunch of people in shiny, clean rooms and say, "do math... or else!"... OK, I get it, but many inventions have been recreated or "pre-invented" by synchronous thinkers and inventors to the point of awarding the weaker mind the historical honorific of inventor while memory-holing the OG inventor.  Why would nasa and apollo be immune from that?