robotics, science and technology of robot design, manufacture and use of robots, biomedical, intersection of medicine and natural sciences, such as biology and biochemistry, NASA + Texas Medical Center, treating wounds and growing cells outside of the body to replace damaged cells, Texas Medical Center, located in Houston, Texas, does NASA work with to create new medical technology, NASA spinoffs, space technology used by private companies to develop consumer products, life support systems, technology that helps humans live in space, 1969 , Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, Johnson Space Center, control and track all space missions, NASA, government agency that directs all of the United States space exploration efforts, Cold War competition, increased aerospace and aeronautical research, Soviet Union, country launched the world's first artificial satellite, Cold War, tension between the US and the Soviet Union/USSR, Sputnik, the first man made satellite - launched by the USSR/Soviet Union, Apollo program, to send a human to land on the Moon, National Aeronautics and Space Administration., NASA, Michael Dell, first to allow customers to place an order for a computer built with the exact features the customer wanted over the telephone, Denton Cooley, first surgeon in the world to try using an artificial heart, Howard Hughes, Sr., invented a new rotary drill that could break up rock, allowing for deeper drilling, Texas Insturments, first transistor and integrated silicon circuit and sold 25 million scientific calculators worldwide, pediatric surgeon, doctor who performs surgery on children, Benjy Brooks, first female pediatric surgeon in Texas, Walter Cunningham, astronaut that piloted the first manned space flight Apollo 7.

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