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Technology in moon landing found use in new products

To Phillip Cummins, designing cosmetics isn't much different from studying the cosmos. When the Estee Lauder scientist and his staff study a high-resolution image of human skin, they are using a digital technology originally developed to help land the first man on the moon 40 years ago. Researchers at the Melville skin-care giant realized in the 1980s that a system for mapping the lunar surface...

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