NASA spinoffs

Discussion in 'General Science & Technology' started by leopold, Nov 7, 2014.

  1. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    what, in your opinion, is the greatest NASA spinoff?

    mine would have to be digital fly by wire.
    this concept required ever smaller components and ever increasing memory.
    it's a very small step from there to todays computers.
    the backups had to be synced to the primaries, the failed must be disregarded.
    and it had to be 100% reliable.
    almost all of today's avionics is directly related to digital fly by wire
     
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    Jobs for thousands of people working for NASA and those who work with things that NASA created.
     
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