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 microwave oven was introduced in 1947 as an outcome of wartime radar research. The first plastic corneal lens was produced in 1939. Arthur C. Clarke first described the architecture of a geosynchronous satellite communication system in 1945. The Incas freeze-dried potatoes in the 13th century, modern refrigeration means were available by 1927, and it was used broadly in World War II. The first solar panel was available in 1881, but the modern design occurred by 1939. The rest might as well be credited to NASA. Nuclear reactors date from 1942. The south pole of the Moon was selected for the Artemis mission because of the expectation of finding water, not deuterium (we have plenty of deuterium on Earth).
NASA invented a lot of things (including Tang dried drink), but not everything. A lot is due to the ICBM development programs.
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.
The microwave oven was introduced in 1947 as an outcome of wartime radar research. The first plastic corneal lens was produced in 1939. Arthur C. Clarke first described the architecture of a geosynchronous satellite communication system in 1945. The Incas freeze-dried potatoes in the 13th century, modern refrigeration means were available by 1927, and it was used broadly in World War II. The first solar panel was available in 1881, but the modern design occurred by 1939. The rest might as well be credited to NASA. Nuclear reactors date from 1942. The south pole of the Moon was selected for the Artemis mission because of the expectation of finding water, not deuterium (we have plenty of deuterium on Earth).
NASA invented a lot of things (including Tang dried drink), but not everything. A lot is due to the ICBM development programs.
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