You are an absolute idiot HW. Crawl back in your hole with the other flatearthers.
Here are just a few benefits of space travel
It has changed the way we live. Thousands of NASA breakthroughs, ideas and gadgets are now used in jets, hospitals, farms and kitchen pantries across the globe.
"We interact with space technology every day," Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex spokesman Glen Nagle said. "Every time you watch television news you are watching it via satellite as a result of space technology."
Tens of thousands of items can be directly attributed to the space program. Dental braces, rechargeable batteries, the cordless drill, reverse cycle airconditioning, cardiac monitoring equipment, and systems to guide car drivers to vacant parking spaces are available to all thanks to space research.
The Mars rovers Spirit and its twin Opportunity, expected to land on January 25, could herald a breakthrough in the detection of breast and other forms of cancer.
The rovers have an instrument called mini-tes used for infra-red scanning of the Martian terrain. It can measure temperature variations to a millionth of a degree.
The temperature of cancer cells in the body is also thought to vary from other cells by a millionth of a degree. Tests are under way in the US to see if the mini-tes could become a new method of cancer detection.
Millions of people are alive through medical breakthroughs attributed to space exploration. Pacemakers have come through the evolution of power and miniaturisation of space components.
Cardiac monitors, tele medicine, artificial hearts, diagnostic instruments, robotic and remote surgery, infra-red thermometers and materials used to make lifelike artificial limbs are all space benefits.
Astronauts living in zero gravity for long periods lose bone density similar to osteoporosis sufferers. Osteoporosis scanning and bone research instruments developed by NASA to monitor astronauts are now in widespread use.
Devices built to measure the balance of astronauts when they return from space are used to diagnose and treat patients suffering head injury, stroke, dizziness and central nervous system disorders.
A patient undergoing laser vision correction surgery is also a beneficiary. Technology used to track the position of a person's eye 1000 times a second during laser surgery was developed for autonomous rendezvous and docking of space vehicles to service satellites.
Components in dental braces have come from engine development for space rockets.
The ceramic was developed for rocket engines, and the wire to straighten the teeth was made to combat high flexing forces of space flight.
Thousands of computer software developments have resulted from NASA projects.
The lunar lander that delivered the first men to the moon was a technological minnow compared with today's computers. A desktop calculator or the electronic car key has more computing power than the 1969 lander.
Other space-race breakthroughs include:
INFANT formulas enriched with an algae-based additive discovered during space research to be beneficial to mental and visual development.
SCRATCH resistant lenses and air quality monitors.
SYSTEMS to guide car drivers to parking spaces.
SWIMSUITS, rowing boats and yachts that travel faster because of small barely visible riblet grooves devised to reduce skin friction and aerodynamic drag in spacecraft.
TOXICITY warning badges.
UNDERWATER location aids.
ROBOTIC paint removal systems that strip paint from ships without polluting the environment.
But despite popular legend, velcro and teflon were not developed by NASA. NASA scientists worked to improve them after they had been invented by others.
you are the one that is not reading full threads or what?
whats the the problem anyways.
the rover is online again. Sister probe is going to land tomorrow
6.something MEZ time.
What have we learned because of teh space program? Don't we have
already enough bacterium on earth?
I would find it much more interesting to explore the oceans first.
Find a way to get people on earth together...
Other way to do it would be to research transportation that can
also be used on earth and gets them faster on mars...or any other
place.
BTW...what was found on moon that we can't live without today?
Regards,
Sean
You'll be happy to know that the software has been patched and is
up and running again. How'da like them apples.
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