Space Spin-Offs

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4.6 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2009

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Space is now big business. Technology originally developed for the space program sometimes ends up in products for use on Earth, often in surprising ways. The 40,000 certified “Space Products” range from mattresses to medical devices, and have turned space into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Inspired by our excursions into the Final Frontier, entrepreneurs and inventors are turning stardust into gold.

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0:00.0	I guess I need you to answer that.
0:06.0	8.3, 7.6, but I...
0:20.0	Our universe is filled with secrets and mysteries,
0:24.0	leaving us with many questions to be answered.
0:31.0	Now more than ever, we find ourselves searching for those answers
0:37.0	as the very fabric of space, science, and society are converging.
0:44.0	Here for the first time, these worlds collide.
0:49.0	As we give you the knowledge that breaks the barrier between what is science
0:54.0	and what is merely pop culture.
0:57.0	This is StarTalk.
1:00.0	Now here's your host, astrophysicist, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson,
1:05.0	and comedian, Lynn Coplitz.
1:08.0	StarTalk.
1:12.0	We're back, Lynn.
1:13.0	How you doing?
1:14.0	I'm good, how are you, Neil?
1:16.0	It's a land.
1:17.0	You know what we're going to talk about today.
1:19.0	I do, but I think there's some clarifying that we're going to have to do.
1:22.0	What's that?
1:23.0	Well, go ahead and tell everyone what to show it.
1:25.0	You said before I do, you're going to clarify something.
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