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