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…
Wind-tunnel testing at NASA’s Langley Research Center played a key role in the development of Speedo’s LZR Racer swimsuit, proving…
NASA funded the development of an ethylene scrubber for the International Space Station that has subsequently proved capable of purifying…
NASA technology drove early advances in the scratch resistance and UV-reflective properties of prescription and sunglass lenses.
Drawing on materials and expertise developed from its work on NASA spacesuits and spacecraft components, ILC Dover Inc. manufactures most…
This popular insulation for homes and buildings is a NASA technology originally developed for space communications and to protect people…