- Credit: NASA Spinoff
HowStuffWorks.com has posted an impressive listing of what breakthroughs in medicine came from NASA.
The roster of medical advances that came at least in part from NASA research includes: Cool suit to lower body temperature in treatment of various conditions; Light-emitting diodes (LED) for help in brain cancer surgery; as well as foam used to insulate space shuttle external tanks for less expensive, better molds for artificial arms and legs.
“Most Americans don’t go a week — maybe not even a day — without encountering something that owes at least part of its origins to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. That’s true in the home medicine cabinet, the doctor’s office and the hospital,” HowStuff Works.com explains.
The Atlanta, Georgia-based HowStuffWorks.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications and provides easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works.
Check out their notable look at NASA spinoffs in the medical arena.
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