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Neill Myers, Marshall’s most patented inventor, demonstrates the Variable-Aperture Reciprocating Reed Valve, an...
How do you measure a cloud? Tim Bencic does it with lasers. The NASA Glenn engineer invented a tomography system for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Paul Curto (left), chief technologist with NASA’s Inventions and Contributions Board,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Paul Curto (left), chief technologist with NASA’s Inventions and Contributions Board,...
AiroCide Ti02, an anthrax-killing air scrubber manufactured by KES Science and Technology Inc., in Kernesaw,...
Legendary characters used the power of mythology to fly through the heavens. About 200 BC, a Greek inventor known as...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Dr. Gary Stutte explains to Paul Curto (right), chief technologist with NASA’s...
This is a photo of a technician at KES Science and Technology Inc., in Kernesaw, Georgia, assembling the AiroCide...
2009 Awards Ceremony; 2008 Government Invention of the Year Award, 2009 Software of the Year Award sponsored by Ames...
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong's spacesuit was unveiled today in...
Martha Williams, who leads the team inventing the Flexible Damage Detection System, stands in a laboratory with a...
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong's spacesuit was unveiled today in...
Neil Armstrong's Pressure Suit, A7-L, A19730040000, Apollo 11, that he wore to walk on the moon July 20, 1969 in its...
Frank Nola invented the Power Factor Controller (PFC) at Marshall Space Flight Center more than a decade ago. Nola...
This photo shows two small drawings inscribed inside the front left wheel of the Mars Perseverance rover, pictured...
Neil Armstrong's Pressure Suit, A7-L, A19730040000, Apollo 11, that he wore to walk on the moon July 20, 1969 in its...
Neil Armstrong's Pressure Suit, A7-L, A19730040000, Apollo 11, that he wore to walk on the moon July 20, 1969 in its...
The latest technologies invented at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida were recognized during the 2023 Innovator...
Erik Lindbergh christens NASA's 747 Clipper Lindbergh, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, with a...
A Nanosensor Device for Cellphone Intergration and Chemical Sensing Network. iPhone with sensor chip, data...
Building the James Webb Space Telescope is challenging. It is NASA's most ambitious and complex space science...
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong's spacesuit was unveiled today in...
Neil Armstrong's Pressure Suit, A7-L, A19730040000, Apollo 11, that he wore to walk on the moon July 20, 1969 in its...
The British fired Congreve rockets against the United States in the War of 1812. As a result Francis Scott Key...