A documentary illustrating some of the technological spin-offs from the space industry into car manufacturing. Organised as follows:
ROCKET POWER FOR CAR ENGINES? a look at how technologies developed for rocket proopulsion are also used in the automotive industry - seals for fuel pumps, engine cooling tubes, and shape memory alloys to optimize the performance of catalytic converters.
SPACE TECHNOLOGY, NO LUXURY - composite materials and plastic panelling used in car bodyworks, also resin and carbon fibre; carbon-carbon used in brake discs for racing cars and aircraft.
RATHER SCIENCE THAN FICTION - the development of electric fuel cells for cars; use of carbon-carbon discs in braking; fuel injection systems for cars; thermal insulation microfibre/ceramic insulation material, used as exhaust silencers; the use of shape-memory alloys in catalytic converters; electron bombardment to create a metallised coating of helmet visors in fighter pilots, windscreens in cars to transmit data, transparent heating systems; e

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