If I remember correctly we have the space program to thank for Corningware and similar kitchen cookware developed from shielding from the nose cones of rockets. Also I believe that teflon came from space research. I am sure there are many others. As a cook I love my Corningware, thank you space program.
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That’s some pretty expensive cook ware by that standard.
But really, corningware was here 20 years before the first rocket took flight. Teflon, at least 10 years before.
Sorry whine!
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