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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