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"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”?-?Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist & much more

Good Sunday morning all and welcome to this edition (No. 48) of "With That Said" (WTS), a LinkedIn newsletter powered by your friends here?at Supply Chain Now . Today, we first want to celebrate India's recent space program successes, as the country became the 4th to land a spacecraft on the Moon. And India become the 1st country ever to land on the lunar south pole. These remarkable feats inspire us all.

To continue with that celebratory theme, let's walk through a variety of inventions that stem from NASA projects and U.S. space exploration. These are terrific examples of how the tremendous investments in space programs have benefitted life here on Earth.

• Cordless Power Tools: In collaboration with Black & Decker, NASA developed the first cordless power tools to collect samples on the Moon. Tim "Tool Man" Taylor's life would be forever changed, when the technology was later used to create cordless, battery-powered vacuums & other tools.
• Water Purification Systems: Needing a way to ensure that astronauts had clean water in space, NASA developed technology that has been used in various water purification systems on Earth.
• Digital Image Sensors: The technology behind many smartphone cameras, the CMOS active pixel sensor, well that was invented by a NASA researcher.
• Cloud Computing: According to Medium , "If we can store and access data over the Internet we must thank NASA. In fact, an early and important breakthrough in cloud-based computing, known as Open Stack, originated there. Software developers partnered with industry to portion out storage and computing power on an as-needed basis. Today, it is the most used open-source Cloud computing platform, which is used to manage data at many of the world’s biggest commercial brands and research organizations."
• Fire-Resistant Materials: One of the biggest threats to any mission is emergence and spread of a fire. NASA's research into fire-resistant materials for spacecraft and suits has been applied in fire-fighting equipment and aircraft.
• Insulin Pumps: Technology developed for the Space Shuttle's life-support systems would be widely-adapted in the medical field. In fact, it was highly-impactful in the design and functionality of the insulin pump for diabetics.
• Solar Cell Technology: According to HowStuffWorks , "Researchers at NASA didn't invent?solar cells, but the organization did help keep the technology alive during the years when it was still largely uneconomical. Solar power has long been of interest at NASA, starting with Vanguard 1, the first artificial?satellite powered by solar cells to start circling the globe. It launched in 1958, just four years after the first modern solar cell debuted, although it fell silent by 1964. General interest in solar power waned after the energy crisis in the 1970s, but NASA was still a paying customer, pushing for the development of more efficient and affordable solar cells."

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