A NASA engineer’s research at Langley Research Center in the 1960s and ’70s to improve wing designs resulted in a…
A material originally developed for spacesuits can be seen all over the world in stadiums, arenas, airports, pavilions, malls, and…
A NASA-patented voltage controller has been implemented in all sorts of load-bearing electrical machines, providing only the power needed to…
If you’ve ever used Google Earth to scope out a location from above, you can thank NASA for the cloud-free…
Using satellite and other remote-sensing topographical data from NASA, Radar Technologies International developed software that can locate underground water.
NASA-funded research on next-generation spacesuits included the development of phase-change materials, which can absorb, hold and release heat to keep…
Hundreds of people in need of a heart transplant have been kept alive thanks to a cardiac pump that was…
NASTRAN, software developed to help NASA engineers perform structural analysis in the 1960s, soon became a ubiquitous software tool in…
NASA first researched safety grooving cut into concrete surfaces by diamond blades to keep aircraft, including the returning space shuttle,…
Looking to ensure the absolute safety of prepackaged foods for spaceflight, NASA partnered with the Pillsbury Company to create a…
