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Safety Grooving
Safety Grooving

NASA first researched safety grooving cut into concrete surfaces by diamond blades to keep aircraft, including the returning space shuttle,…

Food Safety Standards
Food Safety Standards

Looking to ensure the absolute safety of prepackaged foods for spaceflight, NASA partnered with the Pillsbury Company to create a…

Anti-Gravity Treadmill
Anti-Gravity Treadmill

Alter-G Inc. licensed NASA technology in 2005 and commercialized it through an “anti-gravity” treadmill that is now used by a…

Flexible Aerogel
Flexible Aerogel

NASA turned to aerogel to keep rocket fuel at cryogenic temperatures and worked with industry to create the world’s first…

Digital Fly-By-Wire
Digital Fly-By-Wire

A partnership between NASA and Draper Laboratory in the 1970s resulted in the first plane flown digitally, where a computer…

Cochlear Implants
Cochlear Implants

Adam Kissiah, an engineer at Kennedy Space Center who was hearing impaired and unsatified with available hearing aids, used his…

Neutral Body Posture Specifications
Neutral Body Posture Specifications

What form does the human body naturally assume when all physical influences, including the pull of gravity, stop affecting it?…

Direct-To Advisory System
Direct-To Advisory System

Commercial flights are shorter and burn less fuel thanks to an innovation pioneered by NASA and Boeing. The Direct-To advisory…

Swimsuit Designs
Swimsuit Designs

Wind-tunnel testing at NASA’s Langley Research Center played a key role in the development of Speedo’s LZR Racer swimsuit, proving…

Air Purifier
Air Purifier

NASA funded the development of an ethylene scrubber for the International Space Station that has subsequently proved capable of purifying…