Questions tagged [spinoff]
Commercialized technologies and civilian goods that were initially developed for space exploration, aviation or military purposes, their R&D funded by military or governmental research and were later licensed for commercial use.
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Is the technology behind the Shuttle's heat-shielding tiles used in any product today?
Many NASA inventions have had subsequent lives in the commercial marketplace. Have the Space Shuttle's heat-shielding tiles also had a second life?
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What medicines have come from the Space Program?
There are any quantity of spin-offs from the Space Program. Developments by the erstwhile Soviet Space Program, and others are probably not well known, or easy to locate online. Yet NASA, and it's ...
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What are the "everyday" technologies that are a byproduct of the Apollo program?
There is an ongoing debate about the pros and cons of space exploration. One of the oft-cited pros is integrating the spin-off technologies developed for space into everyday life.
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