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2. Scratch Resistance Lenses 3. Memory Foam 4. Memory Foam 5. Shoe Insoles 6. Long Distance Telecommunications 7. Smoke Detectors 8. Safety Grooving 9. Cordless Tools 10. Water Filters 11. Alabamas contribution to thespace industry 12. Jupiter C rocket 13. Fun Facts 14. Fun FactsA spacesuit weighs approximately 280 poundswithout theastronautand it takes 45 minutes to put it on. 15. Fun FactsSnoopy, from the Peanuts comics, is the astronauts personal safety mascot. 16. Fun FactsExplorer 1, launched on Jan. 31, 1958, was the first artificial satellite sent intospace by the United States. It orbited Earth every 115 minutes, and its cargoincluded a cosmic ray detector designed to measure the radiation environment inEarths orbit. 17. Fun FactsEach space shuttle astronaut is allotted 3.8 pounds of food per day. Foods areindividually packaged and stored for ease of handling in zero gravity. Foods areprecooked or processed, so as to require no refrigeration, and are either readyto eat or can be simply prepared by adding water or by heating. The onlyexceptions are fresh fruit and vegetables, which are stowed in the fresh-foodlocker; without refrigeration, though, carrots and celery must be eaten withinthe first two days or they will spoil. Available condiments include salt, pepper,taco sauce, hot pepper sauce, ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard. 18. Fun FactsA manned rocket reaches the moon in less time than it took a stagecoachto travel the length of England. 19. Fun FactAmericas first space station was Skylab, which was longer than a12-story building and contained almost 12,000 cubic feet of livingspace. 20. Fun FactAlthough it may appear to be flying backward, the flag on the shuttle ispositioned so as to appear as though its flying alongside the ship; this isdone to be in accordance with the regulation for displaying the U.S. flag ona national vehicle so that the star field is positioned at the front of thevessel (or the nose cone end of the shuttle). 21. Fun FactFlying American flags to space originated with the flight of the first Americanastronaut, Alan Shepard, in 1961. Elementary students from a CocoaBeach, Fla., school purchased the flag for Shepard to carry onboard; the flag wasrolled up and placed between cables behind Shepards head inside his Freedom 7Mercury spacecraft. Onetime NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin said, "TheAmerican flags are a patriotic symbol of our strength and solidarity and ournations resolve to prevail." 22. Fun Fact. It takes six hours for a space shuttle, aboard a crawler-transporter, to make thetrip from the vehicle assembly building to the launch pad preceding a mission.