The miracle of Ingenuity is that all of these commercially bought, off-the-shelf components worked. Radiation didn't fry the Qualcomm computer. The brutal thermal cycles didn't destroy the battery's storage capacity. Likewise, the avionics, sensors, and cameras all survived despite not being procured with spaceflight-rated mandates.

In 1981, the Gore brand assisted with NASA’s inaugural space shuttle mission, Space Shuttle Columbia. Astronauts wore spacesuits made with the GORE-TEX membrane woven into their outer layers, though this was a different construction of membrane to that found in a consumer product. This wasn’t the first time the company had assisted NASA with space... See more

The hard part of going into space is creating a vehicle that goes fast enough so it can stay in orbit