# Medical Spinoffs from Space

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-spinoffs-from-space/52811>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 2, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-spinoffs-from-space/52811 "2001-02-02T02:39:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-spinoffs-from-space/52811/1 "2001-02-02T02:39:52Z")

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Does anyone know what medical technologies, if any, were developed/spun off from the space program?

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**Author:** ![Fillet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Fillet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fillet)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-spinoffs-from-space/52811/2 "2001-02-02T05:02:11Z")

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[This NASA web page](http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinselect.html) lets you search for a variety of commercial spinoffs of technology originally developed for the space program, including medical products. I did a quick search under “medicine” and came up with 170 hits.