Gallery: Tech Designed for the Space Shuttle That We All Can Enjoy

It would have been nice if you could have made it possible to divulge the name of the rescue equipment you mentioned. Being only familiar with hydraulic rescue tools, I am curious how the mentioned line of devices works.

Seems like that fishing net stuff should never have been allowed to be used by sea-harvesting users....resistant to UV, extreme tensile strength, means it breaks down super-slowly and animals can't break out of it... brilliant!

What people fail to realize is that all these gizmo's or inventions if you want to call it that--are just things that science would have invented anyway when the need arose. If NASA had a hand in any of them it's only one hand of millions of hands working on research throughout the world to satisfy demands and needs. So get off your high horse NASA has barely touched the number of inventions or patents worldwide.

@psciz see techtran.msfc.nasa.gov/at_home/fire2.html
(sry popcsi spam filter wont let me do a link)
I have to disagree with you gizmowiz. Like darpa, nasa provides cash for tech that most business don't want to risk. Government via contests, the military, universities and government labs has long been a major contributor to science and tech. Heck we wouldn't even be having this chat if the Army would not have demanded and payed for a system to quickly compute artillery tables.

I think if one really looked they'd find way more advances brought to the world's public because of the US's funding of space.

Science might have invented this stuff but there is a big difference between might have an idea and a working product that is tested. The idea that this all would have happened on it's on is simply foolish. Tell me what you'd do if you didn't get paid? Just show up to work each day? I doubt it.

The space program created the worlds most technical machine. That machine involved almost every engineering skill known. To get that every aspect had to have funding. The entire electronic sector owes it's profit to the space program. We'd still be watching black and white TV.

Of course some of that tech is cross funded by military spending. The entire engine systems and guidance and metals were drawn from companies that created military hardware.

And you forgot about TANG!

Where can you buy insulating tiles as used in the shuttle? I have some antique waffle irons that had asbestos in them as insulation, and I've been looking for a replacement.

The space program created the worlds most technical machine. That machine involved almost every engineering skill known. To get that every aspect had to have funding. The entire electronic sector owes it's profit to the space program. We'd still be watching black and TV.

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