3 aerospace inventions that we use at home

In celebration of its 70th anniversary, the NASA revealed his future plans for the coming decades.

However, what very few know is that the product of numerous investigations by the American space agency, have allowed the invention of many objects that we use every day.

Therefore, we have decided to share some of them in the following article.

Portable vacuum cleaner

A typical accessory from the 90s that has been evolving since then. At first it was a type of drill used to extract small lunar rocks, since it did not need a connected power supply to the ship and consumed the least amount of energy possible. 

Then the company Black & Decker was in charge of designing a program to optimize the operation of this drill. As a result, the famous portable vacuum cleaner “Dustbuster”.

The ear thermometer

El ear thermometer It arrived long before it ended up in our medicine box. In fact, it is based on the astronomical thermometer, which uses infrared technology to calculate the temperature of stars. 

This was done by measuring the energy released by the waves, which gave a very precise indication of the heat emitted.

Therefore, it was a useful method to recover long-distance information, which also worked for humans. More precisely, calculating the energy produced by the eardrum. 

goma espuma

In the early 60s, aeronautical engineer Charles Yost began working on a technology to increase the safety of the pilot installed in the Apollo control module.

 The objective was to design seats capable of tempering the landing impact. To do this, the use of a chemical compound based on polyurethane allowed the density and viscosity to be increased. As a result, this material (which reacts to body heat) was very effective in absorbing impact during accidents, but also very useful and able to recover its original shape after the accident.

The pilots and passengers Later they adopted them, since they made long trips more comfortable, better distributing the weight of the body on the seats.

Thus, Foam rubber was born, often used in mattresses, cushions or pillows.