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OpenStack Cloud Computing Platform
OpenStack Cloud Computing Platform

An effort at Ames Research Center to standardize NASA websites, dubbed Project Nebula, unexpectedly led to a breakthrough in cloud…

Invisible Braces
Invisible Braces

A company working with NASA invented the translucent ceramic that became the critical component of the first “invisible” dental braces,…

Supercritical Wings
Supercritical Wings

A NASA engineer’s research at Langley Research Center in the 1960s and ’70s to improve wing designs resulted in a…

Tensile Fabrics for Architecture
Tensile Fabrics for Architecture

A material originally developed for spacesuits can be seen all over the world in stadiums, arenas, airports, pavilions, malls, and…

Voltage Controller
Voltage Controller

A NASA-patented voltage controller has been implemented in all sorts of load-bearing electrical machines, providing only the power needed to…

Cloud-Free Views of Earth
Cloud-Free Views of Earth

If you’ve ever used Google Earth to scope out a location from above, you can thank NASA for the cloud-free…

Water-Mapping Technology
Water-Mapping Technology

Using satellite and other remote-sensing topographical data from NASA, Radar Technologies International developed software that can locate underground water.

Phase-Change Materials
Phase-Change Materials

NASA-funded research on next-generation spacesuits included the development of phase-change materials, which can absorb, hold and release heat to keep…

Cardiac Pump
Cardiac Pump

Hundreds of people in need of a heart transplant have been kept alive thanks to a cardiac pump that was…

NASTRAN
NASTRAN

NASTRAN, software developed to help NASA engineers perform structural analysis in the 1960s, soon became a ubiquitous software tool in…