Start Date

4-1976 8:00 AM

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Today we educate the world via communications satellites. We prospect for oil with land-resource satellites. We keep the tundra frozen with spacecraft-derived heat pipes, making the Alaskan pipeline possible. Our damaged hearts are run by pacemakers, our ailments diagnosed by computer. Highways are grooved to prevent skidding. Bridges soon may be protected from corrosion. Better lubricants, more powerful solar cells, more efficiently designed railroad cars have been spun from space technology. Thousands of technical innovations are the payoff after 18 years in space.

Examples of how our national investment in space research and technology pays off will be described here, first as social, political, and economic stimuli and then in the exploration of space for its own purposes. The "research payoff" continues with current cases of space spinoffs that affect your job, your health, your mobility, your home, your environment, and your future.

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Space Spinoffs/ National Space Institute

Session Chairman: Neil Ruzic, Director, National Space Institute, Michigan City, Indiana.

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Spinoff 1976: A Bicentennial Report

Today we educate the world via communications satellites. We prospect for oil with land-resource satellites. We keep the tundra frozen with spacecraft-derived heat pipes, making the Alaskan pipeline possible. Our damaged hearts are run by pacemakers, our ailments diagnosed by computer. Highways are grooved to prevent skidding. Bridges soon may be protected from corrosion. Better lubricants, more powerful solar cells, more efficiently designed railroad cars have been spun from space technology. Thousands of technical innovations are the payoff after 18 years in space.

Examples of how our national investment in space research and technology pays off will be described here, first as social, political, and economic stimuli and then in the exploration of space for its own purposes. The "research payoff" continues with current cases of space spinoffs that affect your job, your health, your mobility, your home, your environment, and your future.

 

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