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To: SpinnerWebb
Everyone discounts the military value of the shuttle program.

It also gave us computers and technology that is currently being use in medical diagnostics.......among millions of other things. Hell, back in the early 80's, I had an ENT specialist shove a camera thing up my nose that was first developed by NASA in order to allow the astronauts to see behind computer banks in order to help diagnose equipment malfunctions and work on them.

As a side note, look at the technology currently being used in our cars which was first developed for car racing......turbo chargers, super chargers, etc., etc.....

34 posted on 07/26/2011 10:46:38 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (You can't forfeit the game Chuck! If you go home you forfeit!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I believe that such medical devices as heart monitors which can be warn on one’s wrist and transmit data to one’s cardiologists were developed so that astronauts could be monitored here on earth.

On a closer-to-home level, I believe that the material that was developed to shield the nosecones from heat on reentry translated into Corningware which allows casseroles to go from the freezer into the oven.

The space program unleashed much research and development and has made our lives better


51 posted on 07/26/2011 11:37:06 AM PDT by matchgirl ("He made it worse")
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