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This site attempts to answer a question everyone has probably asked themselves: How does space exploration impact their daily life? NASA has provided this website dedicated to help answer that query. To start, visitors can click on the drawing of the house, on the left side of the screen. Once selected, visitors will hear realistic birds chirping, dogs barking, and birds coming out of the leafy tree to alight on the lawn. The two tabs that appear that say "Rotate", on either side of the screen, can be clicked on to rotate the house, to discover the rooms in which space exploration has had an impact. Visitors can pick a room, such as the kitchen, bathroom, or living room, and will find a list of items that have been invented or improved upon due to space exploration. The kitchen boasts "Enriched Baby Food", "Water Purification", and "Freeze-Dried Technology". Visitors can choose one of the items and listen to a brief video about it. After the video, a tab entitled "Click Here to Learn More" allows the visitor to read official documents relating to the discovery or enhancement, from NASA's Scientific and Technical Information website.

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