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Help Save America's Human Space Exploration Program
Save Space is a movement started by people on the Space Coast to raise the awareness of the nation, the President, and other elected officials: Space needs to be a priority for America. As the clock ticks toward the end of the Space Shuttle program, as the President and his advisors review the Augustine Commission recommendations, as Florida's economic engine falters. it is imperative that we make our voices heard by writing letters to the President: Save Our Space Program!
Our Goal: 500,000 letters by October 31
Partners: Brevard County, Florida Today, Space Coast Association of Realtors, Space Florida
Domain Owner: John Sellers Brevard County
Keith's note: And of course the obligatory, yet mostly mythical, totally unsubstantiated, vaguely described, and often plain wrong NASA spinoff paragraph is included as well: "Satellite communications, microwaves, cellular phones, miniaturized computers, pacemakers, kidney dialysis, scratch-resistant lenses, medical and sports technology, adjustable smoke detectors, cordless tools, and water filters are just a few examples of the advances that have occurred through NASA space research. Not to mention the entrepreneurs, jobs, and commercial aspects of many space research spin-offs."
Microwave ovens were invented in the 1940s - before NASA. Modern kidney dialysis was also invented in the 1940s. Doesn't anyone ever research these claims?
As someone who has been compiling a book on space benefits, I can attest to the following:
-Satellite communications were advanced but not invented by NASA
-Kidney dialysis dialistrate compound, the chemicals that actually filter the blood during hemodialysis, was advanced by NASA research but not the hemodialysis process itself (as Keith has correctly stated). A new generation lightweight hemodialysis system, evolved from Apollo era technologies, is now in clinical trials in the U.S. by a company called Renal Solutions, Inc. which bought the patents from Marquart Corp.
-NASA research had nothing to do with cellular phones, microwave ovens, MRIs, smoke detectors, or pacemakers.
-NASA technology did develop a new generation of scratch-resistant lens
-Several dozen NASA spinoffs are in the medical device and monitoring catagory
-NASA did not develop cordless tools or water filters but did pioneer a new type of water filtration system evolved from research during plans for extended Apollo lunar missions, and lightweight batteries used in some cordless tools.