Tang? Close but no cigar - it was first marketed in 1957, and I was drinking it as a kid before NASA had any manned spacecraft. Yes, they did drink it on Gemini, and the ads about that boosted sales, but it was not a product of the space program. http://heliopoli.com/2007/12/02/tang-a-correlative-history/
Few of the advances of modern technology made it into space. The computers on the shuttle are so laughable that astronauts brought laptops on board for the last several missions.
And that's a big reason the program was dropped. 40-year-old designs flying for 30 years.
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Date: 2011-07-22 06:50 am (UTC)Teflon? ROFL. Dupont patented that around the end of WWII
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Teflon/Teflon-HistoryDuPont.htm
Tang? Close but no cigar - it was first marketed in 1957, and I was drinking it as a kid before NASA had any manned spacecraft. Yes, they did drink it on Gemini, and the ads about that boosted sales, but it was not a product of the space program.
http://heliopoli.com/2007/12/02/tang-a-correlative-history/
Few of the advances of modern technology made it into space. The computers on the shuttle are so laughable that astronauts brought laptops on board for the last several missions.
And that's a big reason the program was dropped. 40-year-old designs flying for 30 years.