20. How have we already benefited from mission findings and technology? (A K2S Question)

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There are so many immediate benefits that this is only a small portion: smoke detectors; motion sensing burglar alarms; freeze-dried foods; the wear-resistant soles of athletic shoes; graphite fishing poles, golf clubs, and tennis rackets; automatic bank teller machines; solar heating systems; metallized emergency blankets; offshore deep-water oil rigs; rapid bacterial infection analysis; better medical understanding of how our lungs work; finding a person's location on the Earth's surface; and much more. Our tax dollars invested in our space programs have been returned many times over, in lives saved and a better standard of living. And that doesn't even take into account the excitement of discoveries and adventures that watching space exploration has brought into our lives.

Answer provided by Charles D. Walker, Ph.D


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