Spinoffs at NASA’s Apollo missions included microwave ovens, contact lenses, satellite communications, freeze dried food, solar panels, high temp paints, ablations, GPS, remote sensing. The list is long and amazing.
The necessary discoveries for Mars will be historic. We NEED unlimited modular and redundant energy generation. The S pole of the moon was picked because of Duterium.
Any way you want to look at it; tech driven innovation (space, medical, defense communications), these efforts have paid off to America many times more than the cost of the original program
Spinoffs at NASA’s Apollo missions included microwave ovens, contact lenses, satellite communications, freeze dried food, solar panels, high temp paints, ablations, GPS, remote sensing. The list is long and amazing.
The necessary discoveries for Mars will be historic. We NEED unlimited modular and redundant energy generation. The S pole of the moon was picked because of Duterium.
The father of invention is necessity.
Any way you want to look at it; tech driven innovation (space, medical, defense communications), these efforts have paid off to America many times more than the cost of the original program