Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)
A well-oiled machine
May 18, 2010 9:16 am | by Paul Livingstone | Blogs | CommentsVisit one of Florida’s premier tourist destinations (no, not Disney) and it’s a little hard to believe there’s a countdown unrelated to a rocket launch. Nearly everything at Kennedy Space Center is designed to show visitors that not only does NASA has a rich history of space exploration, it’s still going strong as the world’s premiere launch facility.
Space biotech: growing industry or space shot?
May 12, 2010 6:52 am | Blogs | CommentsBiotechnology has two of the most promising commercialization areas in orbital research: x-ray protein crystallography and vaccine therapeutics. But the demise of the space shuttle and the dearth of venture capital could stall some important R&D.
Calling all aerospace contractors, your funding is ready
February 2, 2010 7:02 am | Blogs | CommentsMonday was probably a bittersweet day for NASA. Told that it would no longer be following President Bush’s lunar comeback effort or even launching its own astronauts into space, the agency must now look to contractors for their escape velocity needs.
Taking space science to the streets
December 18, 2009 7:34 am | by Paul Livingstone | Blogs | CommentsSo here’s the challenge, design a glove that will resist the cold and vacuum of space and the ever-present threat of micrometeoroid penetration yet remain pliable and flexible enough to allow an astronaut to perform a dextrous task. The glove must be complete, including the outer thermal layer and inner pressure-retaining layer.
A Galaxy of Spinoffs
September 29, 2009 9:32 am | by Paul Livingstone | Articles | CommentsThrough partnerships and spinoffs, NASA engineers advances in medicine, safety, and deep space observation.
System has no strings attached
August 31, 2006 8:00 pm | Award WinnersThe Explorer is a long-range-tetherless, self-powered robotic system for the live, visual inspection of natural gas and other pipelines. The system was created by researchers at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ. (Pittsburgh, Pa.); Polytechnic Univ. (Brooklyn, N.Y.); NYSEARCH/Northeast Gas Association (New York, N.Y.); Strategic Center for Natural Gas and Oil, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy (Morgantown, W.V.); Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.); and ULC Robotics Inc. (Deer Park, N.Y.).
