Notes

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy famously said that by the end of the decade, the United States was going to put a man on the moon. NASA stepped up and did it, beating his deadline by about five months.
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There was a long list of requirements: in addition to being lightweight, the purifiers also needed to have minimal power usage and work without regular monitoring
By 1965, NASA had advanced the technology quite a bit — and they'd come up with the word "pixel" to describe each "picture element.
Fast forward to the 1990s, and NASA's lab made another massive advancement with the development of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor image sensors (CMOS), which allowed the development of miniature cameras capable of taking high-quality photos... like the one in your phone.
lead?-(did you know that NASA created baby food?) NASA created better baby food that didn't have fatty acids in them.
The US Army built the first American satellite in 1958 since NASA was not formed until later that year.
NASA developed the silvery, reflective, lightweight, and insulated blankets in 1964 and since then, they've used the blankets on almost every mission. They've been vital technology: when Skylab lost a heat shield and was in danger of overheating to critical levels, it was the simple silver blanket to the rescue