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Old March 17th 09, 11:18 AM posted to sci.astro,sci.physics,sci.math,rec.aviation.military,sci.space.history
Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)
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Default Discovery is in orbit

Really? What Space Program microcomputers helped the tech boom.

Lexan was created in 1953, long before the space race.



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I wasn't able to identify the coastline, but it looked like they
launched
north, toward Nova Scotia. There's a final burn in six minutes, to
circularize the orbit.


is it going to solve the financial crisis?


Well, lets look at the 1990s tech boom, Space Program microcomputers
helped with computer research, part of what led to that.

New technologies always spur economic growth as new goods are
produced, people are hired to make them, people are hired to sell
them, etc.

All sorts of stuff from Lexan plastic to wireless high bandwidth
transmissions have been influenced by the space program. They have had
economic impacts no doubt.