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Here's a NASA spinoff that can help make cooking for the holidays easier. Happy Thanksgiving! http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2005/ ch_2.html
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Cooking Dinner at Home—From the Office Consumer/Home/Recreation Originating Technology/ NASA Contribution It is well past quitting time, but you are still stuck in the office. Your spouse left work over an hour ago, but is caught in bumper-to-bumper traffic. ...

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One NASA spinoff has saved the lives of hundreds of sailors. Find out more here: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2009/ ps_3.html
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The space shuttle is unique among spacecraft in that it glides back to Earth and lands like an airplane, usually touching ground near where it launched at Kennedy Space Center, but sometimes, in poor weather, ...

Doris When NASA first starts developing new technologies w/ partners, are these R&D projects mostly classified?

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Check out the lead actor of the film Planet 51 in this new NASA public service announcement. To see more, visit
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Speaking of sports, Detroit sports fans may not have much to cheer about right now, but at least their professional athletes are benefiting from a NASA spinoff: Special ultrasound techniques and technology--originally developed for astronauts on the International Space Station--are helping Detroit teams work with dista......nt doctors to diagnose injuries: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2009/ hm_1.html
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Image-Capture Devices Extend Medicine’s Reach Health and Medicine Originating Technology/NASA Contribution In spring 2008, Dr. Scott Dulchavsky diagnosed high-altitude pulmonary edema in a climber over 20,000 feet up the slope of Mount Everest. ...
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Sports fans: Players on professional teams from the Baltimore Ravens to the Los Angeles Lakers use a NASA-derived "anti-gravity" treadmill to rehabilitate from injuries. Read about it in Spinoff 2009: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2009/ hm_5.html
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On Earth, gravity can cause a lot of stress to a person’s bones and muscles, whether the stress is caused by running a marathon or simply climbing a staircase. However, in space, the lack of gravity can also cause problems for astronauts’ bodies. ...

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There's a lot of controversy about the new guidelines for breast cancer screening. What's hard to debate, though, is the benefit of NASA technologies in health and medicine, including enhancements that have been applied to digital mammography biopsy techniques. Learn more here: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/pdf/HM_web.p df
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Making holiday travel plans? Virtually every time you fly, you are benefiting from NASA innovations. But NASA's aeronautics expertise isn't the only way the Space Agency has improved transportation. Have a look at the Transportation Spinoffs flyer to learn more: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/pdf/T_web.pd f
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The LCROSS mission has confirmed the presence of water on the Moon, a discovery that may increase the viability of a permanent Moon base. Water is always a major concern for space missions, and technologies for providing clean water for astronauts are now also improving water quality on Earth. Here's an example from th......e new Spinoff 2009: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2009/ er_2.html
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Water, an increasingly precious commodity on Earth, has always been priceless in space; but “priceless” is a figure of speech—water in space does have a price, and it is an expensive one. A single gallon of water costs over $83,000 to launch just into low-Earth orbit. ...
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Did you know that work by NASA helped enable today's environmentally friendly wind energy industry? Read about it here: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2009/ er_3.html
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One morning in 1990, a group of Glenn Research Center (then Lewis Research Center) employees arrived to find their workspace upended by an apparent hurricane. Papers were scattered, lights blown out. All eyes turned to the door connecting the office to its neighbor: a 20-foot wind tunnel. ...

Flavio: great to meet you, from firenze, italy

Dinah I love the self-righting Liferaft invention.

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