Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Diesel Goes Digital To Save Energy, Lower Emissions

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Forty years ago, actuators requiring constant energy to help power the Apollo spacecraft in space were replaced by magnetically holding...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Multi-channel Scaler Cards Improve Data Collection

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Scientists interested in exploring the intricacies and dynamics of Earth's climate and ecosystems continually need smaller, lighter...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Water Treatment Systems Make A Big Splash

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In the 1960s, NASA's Manned Space Center (now known as Johnson Space Center) and the Garrett Corporation, Air Research Division, conducted a...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Students Soaring High With Software Spinoff

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

An educational software product designed by the Educational Technology Team at Ames Research Center is bringing actual aeronautical work...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

NASA Technology Takes Center Stage

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In today's fast-paced business world, there is often more information available to researchers than there is time to search through it. Data mining has...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Amorphous Alloy Surpasses Steel and Titanium

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In the same way that the inventions of steel in the 1800s and plastic in the 1900s sparked revolutions for industry, a new class of amorphous...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Heating And Cooling Efficiency For Homes

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Over 40 years ago, NASA developed Radiant Barrier technology to protect astronauts in the Apollo Program from temperatures that ranged from 250...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Artificial Muscle Kits For The Classroom

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Commonly referred to as "artificial muscles," electroactive polymer (EAP) materials are lightweight strips of highly flexible plastic that bend or...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

A Natural Way To Stay Sweet

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

A revolutionary, low-calorie sugar is now available to the food and beverage market, offering an all-natural alternative to table sugar and artificial...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Damping Goes The Distance In Golf

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In the late 1980s, Dr. Benjamin Dolgin of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed a concept for a high-damping graphite/viscoelastic material for the...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Hot And Cold Therapy Eases Pain

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In the 1960s, NASA civil servant Tom Hughes worked for Marshall Space Flight Center's Quality Control Laboratory as a systems engineer. Reporting directly...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Covered In Comfort

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In 1988, NASA began working with private industry to develop thermally adaptive phase-change materials that could be applied to astronauts suits and gloves for better...

Spinoff: Public Safety

Development Of A Digital Image Measurement System

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

An unexpected tragedy took place on April 28, 1988, when the roof of an Aloha Airlines 737 aircraft ripped open at 24,000 feet, killing a...

Spinoff: Public Safety

Forecasting Weather With A Wave Of The Hand

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Cybernet Systems Corporation, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, originally developed its gesture recognition technology for the U.S. Department of...

Spinoff: Transportation

Bringing In The Reinforcements

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

What do NASA and ballistics have in common? More than the average person may know. Everyday, millions of Americans drive in vehicles, cross over bridges,...

Spinoff: Transportation

The Perfect Mate For Safe Fueling

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Referred to as the "lifeline for any space launch vehicle" by NASA Space Launch Initiative Program Manager Warren Wiley, an umbilical is a large device...

Spinoff: Public Safety

Sizing Up The Situation

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Hailstorm damage to the Space Shuttle's External Tank inspired a NASA innovation with extensive photography applications. In order to measure the defects caused by...

Spinoff: Public Safety

Leaving A Print On Safety

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Pattern-recognition technologies developed by NASA to identify spacecraft and other objects in space have helped in the development of new, biometrics-based...

Spinoff: Public Safety

Superior Sensor Making Sense In Military, Medicine

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

A fiber-optic voltage sensor developed a decade ago for NASA's aircraft and space power systems has been the building block for a string...

Spinoff: Public Safety

Spreading The Word On Safety

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Beginning with the Apollo Program in the early 1960s, the NASA White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) has supported every U.S. human exploration space flight...

Spinoff: Public Safety

Fighting Corrosion

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Reinforced concrete structures such as bridges, parking decks, and balconies are designed to have a service life of over 50 years. All too often, however, many...

Spinoff: Public Safety

Approaching Suspicious Substances Safely

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

A mineral identification tool that was developed for NASA's Mars Rover Technology Development program is now serving as a powerful tool for U.S....

Spinoff: Public Safety

Understanding Fire Through Improved Technology

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

By studying fire through the science of combustion physics, scientists and researchers from NASA, academia, and private industry find new...

Spinoff: Transportation

New Outboard Motor Firing On All Pistons

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Seven years ago, NASA was in the planning stages of producing an aluminum alloy with higher strength and resistance at elevated temperatures for...

Spinoff: Transportation

Reducing The Time And Cost Of Testing Engines

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Producing a new aircraft engine currently costs approximately $1 billion, with 3 years of development time for a commercial engine and 10...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

A Look From The Inside

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given the world amazing images of the distant stars, planets, and galaxies. The cutting-edge imaging technology that enhances the...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Segmenting Images For A Better Diagnosis

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Originally conceived for use in terrestrial remote sensing applications, NASA's Hierarchical Segmentation (HSEG) software has found its way into a...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

'Contact' In Space Leads To New Lenses

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

While gravity has its advantages in keeping us balanced and grounded here on Earth, scientists often find that they are at a disadvantage when...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Settling The Score With Heart Disease

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Technology and medicine forged a bond in 1986 when a group of dedicated NASA scientists, University of Southern California (USC) medical professors,...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Freeing Water From Viruses And Bacteria

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Four years ago, Argonide Corporation, a company focused on the research, production, and marketing of specialty nano materials, was seeking to...