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NASA has played a significant role in the implementation of the Global Positioning System (GPS), including software that has enabled…
While developing life support systems for Mars missions, NASA-funded researchers discovered a natural source for an omega-3 fatty acid that…
Perhaps the most widely recognized NASA spinoff, memory foam was invented by NASA-funded researchers looking for ways to keep test…
NASA pioneered the technology now used by the international search and rescue system known as Cospas-Sarsat.
NASA’s contributions to truck design have greatly reduced fuel consumption, perhaps by as much as 6,800 gallons per year for…
Shock absorbers originally used to protect spacecraft and launch pad equipment during the extreme conditions of shuttle launches are now…
A nanofiber filter devised to purify water in orbit is currently at work on Earth, in devices that supply water…
A company working with NASA invented the translucent ceramic that became the critical component of the first “invisible” dental braces,…
An effort at Ames Research Center to standardize NASA websites, dubbed Project Nebula, unexpectedly led to a breakthrough in cloud…
A NASA engineer’s research at Langley Research Center in the 1960s and ’70s to improve wing designs resulted in a…
