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…
Alter-G Inc. licensed NASA technology in 2005 and commercialized it through an “anti-gravity” treadmill that is now used by a…
NASA turned to aerogel to keep rocket fuel at cryogenic temperatures and worked with industry to create the world’s first…
A partnership between NASA and Draper Laboratory in the 1970s resulted in the first plane flown digitally, where a computer…
Adam Kissiah, an engineer at Kennedy Space Center who was hearing impaired and unsatified with available hearing aids, used his…
What form does the human body naturally assume when all physical influences, including the pull of gravity, stop affecting it?…
Commercial flights are shorter and burn less fuel thanks to an innovation pioneered by NASA and Boeing. The Direct-To advisory…