Space shuttle program ended

Forlane · #41 08/05/11, 05:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Ken Scharabok

Unless I am mistaking TANG was created for the U.S. retail market. Didn't sell. Then manufacturer talked NASA into the astronauts using it. It then became a hit.

Can anyone give an example of something which wouldn't have been created anyway dispite the space program?

All products were developed due to our space program.

Cordless Powertools and appliances
Smoke Detector
HOME Water Purifying systems
Aluminum heat Shield Home Insulation
"Cool" Laser Heart Surgery
Space Telescope Looks for Cancer
Body Imaging
New Arms and Legs
Infrared Thermometer
Light emitting diodes (LED)
Composite Forceps
Pill-Sized Transmitter
Chromosome Analysis
Lightning Protection
Windshear Prediction
Collision Avoidance
Firefighter Breathing System
Powerful Jaws for Rescue Tools
Digital Mammography
Camera on a Chip

Website link here

http://www.nasasolutions.com/at_home.html

-Chris

watcher · #42 08/05/11, 08:59 AM

Something else you might want to think about. There was/is a lot of cross over between the space program and the military.

Heritagefarm · #43 08/05/11, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Bearfootfarm

And here you were claiming to know about "science".

Since you yourself know so much about science, perhaps you could help me out with these terms... I'm having some problems with them.

Define:
Facultative
Atomic sublevel
Atomic radius
Periodic table trend of decreasing metallic properties
Anaerobe
Name one unicellular eukaryotic organism
Osmosis
Cyanocobalomin vs. methylcobalamin and cobalamin
Amu
Dalton
Keratin and where it appears.

Any?

plowjockey · #44 08/05/11, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Heritagefarm

Actually, we've spent quite a bit of money on cancer research, too - and that has gotten nowhere. And what is wrong with trying to expand our knowledge? Would you rather that the Russians get ahead of us?

I'm all for science and for the most part, for the space program. At $2 Billion, for one dubious project, maybe some major belt tightening, might be in order, as every Goverment Department needs.

What will the Russians get a head of us in and do we even need to care any more? If they put a man on Mars first, so what? This is not 1966. Our ego is driving our country into the poor house.

Forlane · #45 08/05/11, 08:33 PM

IMHO if we had a world government I could understand the cost of a space program. Terraforming planets like Mars could come in handy for future generations.

Bearfootfarm · #46 08/05/11, 09:54 PM

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I'm having some problems with them

That doesn't surprise me at all since you didn't know there were advances in cancer research.

If you can't find your answers , I guess you're just attached by an inclined plane wound helically around a cylinder