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Space Shuttle Spinoffs

The Space Shuttle Program has generated more than 100 technology spinoffs that benefit everyday life.

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Spinoff Online

NASA's annual premier publication featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology.

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Latest Features

NASA Solar Power Facility Recognized by GSA

Artist Concept of the Solar Power Facility at Kennedy Space Center (Credit: FPL)

10.29.09

NASA partnered with FPL to create a Solar Power Facility that wins 'Innovations in Sustainable Government' award from GSA.

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Ribbon-Cutting for JPL's 'Green' Space Flight Building

Charles Elachi and other dignitaries cut the ribbon for JPL's Flight Projects Center

10.26.09

NASA's "greenest" building to date -- an environmentally friendly Flight Projects Center at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. -- is now open for business, following a ...

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NASA App Now Available from App Store

10.23.09

The NASA App for the iPhone and iPod touch is now available free of charge on the Apple App Store.

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New Celestial Map Gives Directions for GPS

Using the most distant objects in the Universe to find your way home
JPL Test to Improve Pathogen Decontamination

A chemist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has developed a technology intended to rapidly assess any presence of microbial life on spacecraft.
NASA and NFB Celebrate Release of Braille Coin

To commemorate the release of the 2009 Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar, NASA's STS-125 mission flew two of the coins aboard during the Hubble Servicing Mission.

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Press Releases

NASA's Fermi Telescope Celebrates First Year of Gamma-Ray Science

10.22.09 - NASA will hold a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 29, to discuss the first-year science results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
NASA Launches Tweetup for Space Shuttle Atlantis Liftoff in Florida

10.13.09 - For the first time, NASA Twitter followers are invited to view a space shuttle launch in person at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.