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2004

bullet Graded Coatings - June 03, 2004
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has developed and patented a novel method of forming coated parts using functional, gradient-coating techniques. The method is being used by NASA to form liners for rocket engine combustion chambers. It extends the life of the liners by eliminating blistering and separation of the coating that can occur under high heat loads.

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2003

bullet Hidden Identification on Parts: Magnetic Machine-Readable Matrix Symbols - November 11, 2003

Have you ever seen a piece of space flight hardware? When you do you will notice some letters and numbers etched or inscribed on it. All NASA parts have an identity, usually expressed in terms of part number, serial number, etc. In most cases this identity is permanently marked directly on the part for tracking throughout its lifecycle. The recently approved NASA Technical Standard 6002A and Handbook 6003A (found at http://standards.nasa.gov) added the matrix symbol to the identification scheme as shown in Figure A. This put a checkerboard bar code on the part so an optical scanner could read it. The intent was to make tracking parts as easy as checking out at the grocery store. And the system works great as long as the matrix symbol is visible.

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2002

bullet eNTRe - May 14, 2002
You may be surprised to know that every year a number of innovations at Marshall are patented and commercialized. Some of these inventions have even been incorporated into common items we use everyday.

bullet Software of the Year - January 01, 2002
When engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama couldn't find software to meet their needs in analyzing rocket engine fluid flow they invented it. As requirements changed and needs evolved, so did the software.

bullet Friction Stir Welding Technology - January 10, 2002
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center proudly announces the successful commercialization of its retractable pin tool for friction stir welding (FSW) by MTS Systems Corporation and MCE Technologies, Inc. Under license from NASA, both companies recently introduced products that use NASA Marshall's retractable pin tool for FSW process improvements

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2001

bullet Innovative Solution to Video Enhancement - October 31, 2001
Video observation systems have become common fixtures in our everyday lives. Cameras mounted obscurely on walls, ceilings, and even traffic lights capture the average person on videotape eight times a day.

bullet NASA Space Technology Shines New Light On Healing - January 4, 2001
Doctors at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have discovered the healing power of light with the help of technology developed for NASA's Space Shuttle.

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2000
bullet Marshall-Developed Knee Brace Featured At White House
Observance - October 26, 2000
Marshall Center's selectively lockable knee brace technology was one of 15 technologies featured at a recent White House observance.

bullet New Tanks/Pipes Handle Aggressive Fluids with Less Weight A NASA Technology to Improve your Bottom Line - October 4, 2000
Cryogenics, caustics, and corrosives "some of the most difficult materials to manage" may have met their match in a new technology developed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

bullet Companies License NASA VISAR Technology - September 13, 2000
The Video Image Stabilization and Registration (VISAR) technology, used by the FBI and other law enforcement officials to help solve crime, has expanded its capabilities to the commercial sector.

bullet Space Act Helps Students Blast Off - August 16, 2000
High school students recently launched a rocket 35,106 feet into the air with help from Marshall Space Flight Center.

bullet Marshall's VISAR Has Many Applications - January 26, 2000
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center announced in the Federal Register that NASA intends to license its new state-of-the-art video processing method for hardware applications.

bullet Thermal Gasket Developed At Marshall - January 1, 2000
Marshall Space Flight Center seeks qualified companies to further develop and commercialize a new gasket technology.

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1999
bullet NASA Agreement Aids In Landmine Removal - December 1, 1999
An agreement between Thiokol Propulsion, Science and Engineering Division in Brigham City, Utah, and Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL. has produced a more effective way to detonate landmines.

bullet A Safer Way To Bring Babies Into The World - November 5, 1999
Composite materials and fiber optic sensing technology has been incorporated into a new and improved forceps, making infant's entry into life a little bit easier.

bullet Technology Transfer Office Connects With Pennsylvania Company - June 2, 1999
The Technology Transfer Office has signed a non-exclusive license with M&A Screw and Machine Works of Philadelphia, for Marshall's Quick Connect Fastener.

bullet NASA Scientists Aid Law Enforcement With New Software Technology To Improve Video Quality - May 4, 1999
Watch out, America's most wanted. NASA scientists have invented promising, new software technology to help law enforcement agencies catch criminals by improving the analysis of crime scene video.

bullet Technology Transfer Takes Technology On The Road
Marshall's Technology Transfer, Microgravity, and Space Transportation Offices showcased the Center's technology efforts in the National Manufacturing Week Conference and trades show in Chicago, Ill.

bullet Caught On Tape - January 25, 1999
Marshall Space Flight Center technology may soon be helping law enforcement officials around the country solve crimes with Video Image Stabilization and Registration (VISAR), a new concept in clear video imagery.

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1998
bullet NASA, College To Explore Virtual Reality Technologies - October 9, 1998
A Space Act Agreement signed between NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and Calhoun Community College in Decatur, Ala., establishes a cooperative effort to examine emerging technologies in the area of virtual reality.

bullet Brigham Young Students And NASA Engineers Work Together To Test Student-Developed Solar Telescope - November 16, 1998
More than a decade of effort by over 200 students from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, culminated this summer as students worked with NASA engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to prove their solar telescope worked.

bullet NASA Teams With Brigham Young University Students To Study Solar Flares - August 27, 1998
Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Ala., have teamed up with students and faculty at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, to test an inexpensive telescope to study x-ray emissions from the sun.

bullet NASA Research Helps Map Protein Structures, Key To The Development of New Disease-Fighting Drugs - August 7, 1998
Research sponsored by NASA's Microgravity Research Program at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., is making significant contributions to scientists' understanding of the molecular structure of living things - a key to the development of new disease-fighting drugs.

bullet Sacramento School Kids And NASA Technology Find California Capital's Hot Spots. - July 23, 1998
NASA scientists teamed up with local school kids June 29th to answer these questions - literally - when they took the city's "temperature."

bullet Marshall Center A Partner In High-Tech Business Incubator - July 15, 1998
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has teamed with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the State of Alabama Department of Economic and Community Development (ADECA), and the City of Huntsville, Ala., to establish "BizTech," the Business Technology Development Center for Huntsville and Madison County.

bullet Space Grown Insulin Crystals Provide New Data On Diabetes - July 9, 1998
Diabetic patients may someday reduce their insulin injections and lead more normal lives because of new insights gained through innovative space research in which the largest insulin crystals ever studied were grown on the Space Shuttle.

bullet Artificial Intelligence Employed In Searching For Extraterrestrial Organisms And Designing New Pharmaceuticals - July 2, 1998
Looks may not be everything, but they may indicate whether something was alive - here, or on Mars.

bullet Environmentally Friendly Refrigeration System Developed For NASA Has Commercial Applications. - June 25, 1998
A new, environmentally friendly refrigeration system, developed for NASA to use aboard its Space Shuttles and International Space Station, is finding applications here on earth.

bullet NASA Signs Licensing Agreement With New Jersey Firm For Further Development Of Energy-Saving Device. - June 11, 1998
The term "power factor controller" is not exactly a household phrase. But the device itself is at work in countless homes and businesses - quietly saving electrical energy.

bullet NASA Tests Innovative Bioremediation Technique For Oil Spills. - June 4, 1998
An Alabama hair dresser's flash of inspiration, supported by tests by NASA, may hold the key to future oil spill clean-ups.

bullet Marshall Center Ready To Meet International Quality Standards, Say ISO 9001 Auditors - May 28, 1998
Carolyn Griner, acting director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., announced March 2 that the center will be recommended for certification in ISO 9001.

bullet Virtual Reality Software Developed For The International Space Station Comes Down To Earth - May 21, 1998
Virtual reality software developed for the International Space Station comes down to earth. Open Worlds™, a virtual reality software package developed to support NASA's work on the International Space Station, is opening new worlds of opportunity for businesses here on earth.

bullet Space Code Solves Industries' Identity Crisis - May 14, 1998
Digital data matrix technologies developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL., to identify the millions of parts that comprise Space Shuttles such as the "Endeavour" are helping to launch a new commercial endeavor.

bullet Arkansas Orthotics Firm Licensed To Manufacture NASA-Designed Knee Brace For Stroke Victims - May 7, 1998
Horton's Orthotic Lab., Inc., of Little Rock, Ark., has signed a licensing agreement with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL., to manufacture an innovative knee brace. This new brace is designed to offer freedom of movement to patients suffering from a wide variety of lower extremity weaknesses.

bullet MSFC Engineer Cited For Technology Development - May 1, 1998
Fred Schramm, an engineer in the Technology Transfer Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL., was presented the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Southeast Region Award of Excellence Oct. 28, 1997.

bullet SPACE Research Shines A light on Tumors To Save Lives - April 23, 1998
Special lighting technology developed for NASA's commercial plant growth experiments in space may soon help treat cancer and save lives on Earth. For more information, please visit http://www.mcw.edu/whelan.

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1997
bullet Virtual Reality Laboratory Dedication - June 1997
A new, cutting-edge, virtual reality laboratory -- created as a joint venture by the Marshall Space Flight Center and the Army Missile Command in Huntsville, Ala. -- was dedicated on Monday, June 2, 1997, at the Army-NASA Virtual Innovations Laboratory (ANVIL), Building 4663, at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala..

bullet Insulation From Space Program Hits The Road - August 1997
The same insulating material that's enabling instruments aboard the Hubble Space Telescope to see to the ends of the universe may soon help a pair of race car drivers be the first to see the checkered flag.

bullet NASA, USBI Technology Hits The Roof - August 1997
The Convergent Spray Technologies™ (CST™) spray process, developed by USBI Co. and used by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), both located in Huntsville, Ala., to apply heat-resistant coatings to the Space Shuttle's Solid Rocket Boosters, has been found to be suitable for yet another down-to-earth application - that of applying a new coating to the metal roofs of buildings.

bullet Memory Metals Finding Their Way Into Golf Clubs, Helicopters, Operating Rooms, Bath Tubs And Factories - May 1997
Memory metal alloys developed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., for the international Space Station are finding a host of applications down on earth - from golf courses to bathrooms to factories.

bullet Getting Needled Less Of A Problem Thanks To NASA Technology - May 1997
Anyone who's ever winced in pain as a nurse with a needle tried to find a vein in which to start an intravenous flow or draw a blood sample will really appreciate NASA's latest technological breakthrough.

bullet NASA Technology That Helped "Eagle" Land On The Moon is Helping Golfers Make "Eagles" On Earth - May 1997
In the 1960's, former NASA rocket scientist Ben Huang was among the thousands at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., who worked on the Saturn V moon rocket program. Today, he's an entrepreneur - incorporating technologies that helped Apollo 11 astronauts land "Eagle" on the moon into improved clubs that help golfers reach their favorite par 4 greens on the first shot and putt out with the next, carding "eagles" (two under par) as their score.

bullet NASA "Smart Bolts" Likely To Revolutionize Some Industries - May 1997
The world's first high-temperature resistant "intelligent" fastener is on the market, thanks to a partnership between NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and Ultrafast, Inc., of Malvern, Pa.

bullet NASA Technology Puts $ilver Lining In Storm Clouds For Former Broadcast Meteorologist - May 1997
A lightning detection and location technology developed at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., in the 1980's is paying big dividends for a former Huntsville television station's meteorologist.

bullet NASA Technology Putting A New Twist On Early Detection Of "Twisters" - April 1997 Release
Just as NASA research during the Apollo program led to the development of home smoke alarms, research into vibrations on the Space Shuttle now promises to provide a tornado warning system to homes and communities.

bullet NASA Waterjet Stripping Technology Is Helping Vessels To Stay Ship Shape - April 1997 Release
Technologies derived from America's space program are helping the nation's ship repair and overhaul industry.

bullet Space Technologies A Hot Topic For National Fire Protection Association - April 1997 Release
HUNTSVILLE, AL. - NASA, represented by the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) in Quincy, Mass., have signed an agreement to transfer technologies derived from the space program to achieve greater safety for firefighters and the public.

bullet NASA Computer Imaging Technology Is Helping Commercial Firm See New Jobs And More Profits - April 1997 Release
Bio Imaging Research, Inc., of Lincolnshire, Ill., is seeing new employees in its plant and more profits at the end of the year, all thanks to their commercializing computer imaging technologies developed for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

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Other Dates
bullet Maytag And NASA Team Up To Do The Dishes
Maytag's famous lonely repairman is likely to stay that way, at least if NASA has anything to say about it.

bullet NASA, USBI Engineers Turn Into Roads Scholars
A process developed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and United Technologies' USBI to apply heat-resistant coatings to the Space Shuttle's Solid Rocket Boosters is finding a new use. It has been successfully used to apply a new, skid-resistant surface to an interstate highway bridge south of Huntsville, Ala.

bullet Space Shuttle Engine Technology Research Benefits American Jet Engine Manufacturer
 NASA Space Shuttle technology is paying big dividends for one of the nation's largest manufacturers of jet engines for aircraft, Pratt & Whitney of East Hartford, Conn.

bullet NASA Technology Targets Mosquitos
NASA engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Ala., have teamed up with an Arkansas inventor to take aim on one of summertime's greatest pests - the mosquito.

bullet NASA And Tennessee Reaffirm Technology Transfer Partnership - August 16, 1996
HUNTSVILLE, AL. - Representatives of Tennessee Governor Donald Sundquist and Marshall Space Flight Center Director Dr. Wayne Littles met here today to reinitiate a memorandum of understanding between NASA and the State of Tennessee which facilitates the transfer of space program-derived technologies to businesses, academic institutions and entrepreneurs in the state.

bullet NASA Technology Helps American Horses Get A Jump On Their Competition
While still ensuring America's Space Shuttles liftoff and land safely, NASA technology also will be at work helping a pair of the United States Equestrian Team's (USET) premiere jumping horses do the same at the 1996 World Cup show jumping class this December in Switzerland.

bullet Space Technology Helps Louisiana Packaging Firm
A technology developed for the nation's space program by Rockwell International Corp.'s Rocketdyne Division in Canoga Park, Calif., is finding a down-to-earth application with a packaging equipment manufacturer in Monroe, La.

bullet NASA Scientists Gain Insight Into Deadly Disease
Scientists at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, have taken an important step in understanding the molecular structure of a disease that afflicts 200 to 300 million people and is second only to malaria in cause of death worldwide. The disease, known as Schistosomiasis, is caused by parasites found in contaminated water.

bullet The Eyes Have It
An ocular screening system developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., is helping to detect vision abnormalities and diseases, some of which can lead to blindness if left untreated, in children as young as six months of age.

bullet Agreement Between NASA And The Chicago Fire Department Could Lead To Improvements For Fire Fighters
Fire fighting could be safer and more efficient in the future thanks to an agreement signed recently between NASA and the City of Chicago.

bullet Space-Age Forceps To Make Infant Delivery Safer
NASA technology involving composite materials and fiber optic sensing may soon be at work in hospital delivery rooms, easing infants' entry into life.

bullet Marshall Begins Testing Hybrid Rocket Motor Technology
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Ala. is preparing to test a new rocket motor that will combine the safety features of a liquid-propulsion system with the cost savings of a solid- propulsion system.

bullet NASA Program May Revolutionize Rocket Propulsion And Air Conditioning
Application of hydrostatic bearing technologies may well revolutionize the world commercial air- conditioning industry, eliminate a source of environmentally hazardous chlorofluorocarbons, and speed the development of the next generation of military and civilian spacecraft.

bullet NASA's Help Is Speeding Marine Jet To Market
Technological assistance from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and NASA contractor Rocketdyne of Canoga Park, Calif., is paying off for North American Marine Jet, Inc., of Benton, Ark.

bullet North Carolina, NASA Sign Technology Transfer Accord - August 7, 1995
RALEIGH, NC -- North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin, and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Director G. Porter Bridwell signed a memorandum of understanding today to facilitate the transfer of Federal technologies to North Carolina businesses, educational institutions and individuals.

bullet NASA Technology To Target Offshore Oil And Gas
NASA and LSU are working to assist Specialty Plastics Inc., of Baton Rouge, La., in developing innovative joining and fitting technologies for advanced composite piping systems for U.S. oil and gas industry.

bullet Portable Seat Lift Benefits The Disabled
Persons who cannot sit down or stand up easily may soon benefit get a boost -- literally -- from the American space program.

bullet Space-Age Training Offered To Commercial Industries
HUNTSVILLE, AL. -- Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE), in cooperation with NASA , has developed a new tool to train astronauts, ground controllers, and principal investigators on scientific experiment operations for SpaceLab missions.

bullet Compact Gas/Tungsten-ARC Welding Torch Developed
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has funded the development by the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell International Corp. of a compact welding torch with a zirconium oxide plasma-spray coated copper cup instead of the usual ceramic head.

bullet NASA Technology Helps Inventor Clean Up
Technological assistance from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, AL., is helping an inventor clean up -- literally.

bullet NASA Helps Invent Revolutionary X-ray Instrument
A three-year collaborative effort by NASA, industry and university researchers has resulted in the development of an instrument which can generate the world's most intense source of commercial X- rays.

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