ON THE WEB: THINGS THAT NASA INVENTED
by Hazed
What good is space travel, the skeptics ask. Erm… Teflon! Is the usual answer. But actually there’s a whole load of things we use every day that were invented by NASA.
Without space travel we wouldn’t have such things as cordless drills. Or those silver blankets that marathon runners wrap themselves in at the end of a race. Or scratch-proof glasses. Or smoke detectors.
The list goes on. Read about some of the things NASA invented here. And next time you hear someone complaining about how they don’t get any benefit from space travel, tell them about some of these things.