“We didn’t know that by building the space shuttle main engines we’d also get a new implantable heart device,” Lockney said. “There’s also a bunch of stuff we don’t know we’re going to learn, which leads to serendipitous spinoffs.”
via The truth about NASA’s space tech spinoffs – Technology & science – Innovation – msnbc.com.
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