What do ceramic teeth braces, artificial hearts, airbags, insulin pumps and Olympic caliber swimsuits have in common? Answer: they were created in the space.
All these gadgets and hundreds are more spin offs of technologies for the multi-billion dollar space programmes, which came at full speed, 50 years ago as Yuri Gagarin the first man to orbit was thrown.
Many of these offshoot started with a quest of American, Soviet and European engineers for materials that perform new tasks or resist extreme temperatures, cosmic rays and the pressures of high or weightlessness could.
So called memory metals, for example, the flex and will recover its shape in response to heat for shower uses valves to prevent scalding, surgical staples and increased arteries stents called hoses for one.
Sharper than steel scalpels, medical implants, and even performance enhancing Golf Clubs--stronger than titanium as flexible as plastic-related class space age alloys are today of one liquid metals called derived.
Also the flexible wire wheels your sunglasses... the function can also a glass coating, designed to protect astronauts eyes glint and glare.
Often the product seems very remote from the technology, you produced.
If swimwear maker Speedo set therefore, a faster suit, experts from NASA, Langley turned research in friction Institute, studying, and pull you.
The resulting LZR line, launched in February 2008 was fast for the competitive swimmer University events: more than nine out of ten gold medal winner at Olympic Games in Beijing six months later she wore.
Other space reinforced includes sports gear designed shoes with a cushioning material by NASA for the space suits.
Healthcare monitoring devices come from space-related inventions.
Technology once used to measure the temperature of distant stars and planets now monitors the body heat of people by measuring, in less than two seconds, energy through the eardrum.
Automatic pumps, the continuous micro doses of insulin-making the need for painful daily records-provide satellite based components developed for the Viking Mars mission at NASA.
Now was created, to the health of the astronauts in the deep space tracking technology in fitness equipment integrated: an infrared strapped heartbeat sender against the chest the heart rate is used to modulate to directly exercise intensity.
And an artificial heart pump, ten times less than the previous models was directly from systems that monitor fuel consumption on space shuttles.
Some applications have gone from cosmic cosmetic.
With material of missile tracking devices, a company invented translucent, working with NASA carried shatter resistant braces that smiling since then hundreds of thousands of young people.
Shock absorbing foams designed to protect of the astronauts from the brain jarring effects of g-force protective clothing, are widely used in head including for cyclists.
A lightweight, fibrous material five times stronger than steel-originally for the Viking space vehicle parachute gemacht-- is soon in integrated radial tires your next car, according to NASA.
Even gourmet food fans have reason, space-based science hail.
Bond technology developed by ESA as liquids in the bodies of the weightless astronauts move to study, measure Spanish manufacturer now in the close-absolute precision the degree of wetness inside their high-priced ham.
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