Haha I am doing an essay for a school project and I really need to know sum technologies NASA helped with!!!
2007-12-10 04:01:22 · 10 answers · asked by Daraqueen92 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I really like my rocket powered tricycle. Thanks NASA.
2007-12-10 04:05:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first hand held calculators were developed for the space program as well as hand held video devices. The shift from tube technology to integrated circuits was accelerated because of the space program. Before the space race the IC was a technology without an application.
2007-12-10 12:07:23 · answer #2 · answered by Joe C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, it's a myth that Velcro was a result of the space program. It was invented in 1945 by a Swiss engineer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velcro
If you want to get good information on the stuff we're learning from being in space, check out the science experiments that went on in SpaceLab and are happening on the Space Station.
Natural gas furnaces are more efficient because of what we learned from flame experiments in space.
A company in Europe has run experiments with mercury vapor lamps to see why the plasma behaves badly sometimes, to improve those kinds of bulbs.
Basic research into the structure of protein crystals, impossible in Earth's gravity, will help us better understand how biological processes work so we can make more effective medicines.
2007-12-13 14:51:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you are looking for are called spinoff technologies. Velcro is a big example of this. Spinoff is one of the benefits of space exploration. Water filtration has been advanced by it as well. New materials are developed for space that have a lot of great applications on earth. Some of the advances in computers in the 60's came from the space program.
2007-12-10 12:07:06 · answer #4 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Communication and weather satellites were developed by NASA. That are all operated by other agencies now though. Weather satellites are operated by NOAA and communications satellites are largely operated by private companies. And of course there are all kinds of spin off technologies, which are things invented for use in space but which are now used for non-space purposes, like space blankets.
2007-12-10 13:54:12 · answer #5 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Astronaut ice cream and the Tempurpedic bed.
2007-12-10 12:04:29 · answer #6 · answered by ***~*** 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Velcro
fuel cells
Mylar
weather prediction
global communications
personal computers
tang
purer pharmaceuticals
just to name a few...
2007-12-10 12:35:13 · answer #7 · answered by ngc7331 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alkaline batteries, freeze drying for food storage, microwave ovens, fuel cells.
2007-12-10 12:14:17 · answer #8 · answered by Richard L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh sure- baby diapers, toilet papers, why dont u work it urself? look around!
2007-12-10 12:11:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://space.about.com/od/toolsequipment/ss/apollospinoffs.htm
Try that.
2007-12-10 12:13:23 · answer #10 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋