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Old June 25th 04, 11:15 PM
Del Rawlins
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In charles.k.scott@
ddddartmouth.edu wrote:

I can remember two things that the public got their hands on that were
developed for the Space Program: Tang and a pen that works upside
down.


There was also the Temperfoam that a lot of us are using in our seat
cushions, and the emergency blanket I keep in my survival kit (pilots in
Alaska are required to carry one). Besides those examples there were
probably developments in lightweight insulation applicable to aviation
and I'd be be very suprised if the state of the art in storage batteries
wasn't advanced by the space program.

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