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(besides shooting morons into the sun)
Everybody's talking about the Moon and Mars and going there and what we should do there and why we should go and on and on and on and on.
I used to have a great link to a site that clearly set out what kind of benefits mankind has gained from the monies spent on space programs. Not just the intangibles ("we learned things"), but the solid using-it-now-on-Earth technologies as well. I lost that link somewhere along the line, and I want to point some friends to it. I've done some Googling, but the list is long and so far not what I'm looking for.
So I'm asking for help here. Do you know of a site that has that kind of information? A place where Joe Taxpayer can go and read and say "Gee, I didn't realize...".
Posted by Ted at January 11, 2004 10:02 AMTed,
Check out this Spinoffs site. Many links from there, but this graphic is pretty cool.
Chris
Posted by: chris hall at January 11, 2004 04:50 PMThere's more to it than Tang and Velcro?!?!
Posted by: nic at January 11, 2004 09:19 PMHehe -- I was watching the news the other night when it was declared that Dubya wants to "permanently" put astronauts on the moon. Among the many comments that I made to my cats was that he can certainly feel free to go on to be their leader there. :)
Posted by: Dawn at January 11, 2004 09:53 PMwww.ssi.org would be the most appropriate site to visit.
Posted by: kert at January 12, 2004 03:55 AMNic, I don't think velcro was invented for the space program, just very useful and used a lot (it contributed to the Apollo 1 tragedy).
Wouldn't you say that by itself Tang is worth all that money spent? :)
Posted by: Ted at January 12, 2004 08:07 AMI was kidding, but what is the velcro-Apollo 1 connection? That might be a future blog subject, when you get over the month of insane work!
Tang is absolutely worth it. When I was a kid I loved the grape, and I had a purple moon rover with a rubber-band engine that came it a specially-marked Tang package.
Posted by: Nic at January 12, 2004 08:16 PMWhen Apollo was being designed, the astronauts kept requesting extra velcro stuck all over the place. When the fire broke out inside the capsule during the test of Apollo 1, the velcro burned, releasing poisonous fumes into the air inside. The astronauts asphyxiated before they burned to death.
Posted by: Ted at January 12, 2004 08:43 PM