My topic is practical spin-offs from astronomy/space exploration. Basically this means that someone had the idea to use it in astronomy but it turned out to work in other areas. For example for a cell phone, someone came up with the idea of ​​receiving low noise radio, like in cell phones. Another example is the artificial heart: “The technology used in space shuttle fuel pumps led to the development of a miniaturized ventricular assist pump by NASA and renowned heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey. The tiny pump — 2 inches long, 1 inch in diameter and weighs less than four ounces — is currently undergoing European clinical trials where it has been successfully implanted in more than 20 people. “The history of my topic goes back to 1976. NASA produced 50 technologies every year. When NASA first released the spin-offs, they made a black and white report in 1973 titled “Technology Utilization Program Report” Because these reports enjoyed much popularity, NASA began making them in color spin-offs and began distributing free copies to universities, the media, inventors, and the general public. off tells how NASA works with different corporations and small businesses to create new technology In 2008, there were over 1600 spin-off products, dating back to 1976. Some of the major categories of spin-offs were health, medical, transportation,. public safety, consumer, home, leisure, environmental resources, agricultural resources, information technology and industrial productivity there have also been some misattributed derivatives such as barcodes, cordless power tools, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), watches. quartz, smoke detectors, tang jucie powder, te... half the paper... not used in doing anything. You use science in almost everything you do, even the everyday tasks you do require science to do them. One thing I wish someone would invent would be a robot that would do anything you ask while abiding by all laws. Just a robot to clean your room or do your housework and get what you want. I don't think they'll be made anytime soon, though, because of US debt and because people could customize them to do bad things. Almost everything that has been done has been done because of a spin-off. People say astronomy is just space, plants and stars. Astronomy involves almost everything in the entire universe. Works Cited http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=417 http://spinoff.nasa.gov/shuttle.htm http://www.ask. com/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2012/pdf/Brochure_2012_web.pdf http://spinoff.nasa.gov/