{ A New Beginning}

I am so very happy to see the shuttle launch sucessfully today. Not very many people realize how many benefits we enjoy and take for granted because of the space program. Take for instance this very medium was stretched to be able to take care of the needs of the space program. In fact you are sitting on more computing power than all of NASA posessed in the fledgeling years.
All of the telemetry that you take for granted in monitoring your heart when you are in the hospital are a direct result of the research done for the space program.
Amost anything you can think of that is miniturized has been shrunk down to accompany even more things into space.
Even your basic $5 watch with a led or even a lcd readout has been developed for the space program.
The space program even helped Lance Armstrong win his seventh Tour De France by utilizing the streamlining techneques, and using the plastics and the titanium alloys that were developed for the space program.
If things have always been basically true then chances are they will always be basically true so project out what escalating our involvement in space will mean to us stuck here on Earth in even greater technologies to make our lives so much sweeter.........Hells Bells even good ol Tang was developed for space ....how can ya beat it.