NASA 101 shows why we’re better off here on Earth

William Atkins
Wednesday, 27 February 2008 07:30

Science - Space

NASA announced it has a new interactive Web program that shows how NASA technologies over the past fifty years have improved our lives. The Home and NASA City website features over 1,500 examples of how NASA technologies are used on Earth each and every day.             

On Tuesday, February 26, 2008, NASA deputy administrator Shana Dale introduced the new NASA website “NASA 101: From Vision to Reality” at the Third Space Exploration Conference, being held from February 26 to 28, 2008, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado, United States.

The co-sponsor of the event, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, describes the conference as: “50 Years of Space Exploration, Taking the Next Giant Leap."

To view NASA's  new website, visit: "Home and NASA City".

At NASA’s name states, it has researched and been a part of the development and introduction of numerous products and commercial technologies in the areas of aeronautics and space.

In the website, visitors can go to groups of technologies, such as home, hospital, manufacturing, sports arena, and grocery store in order to view each in more details.

One way why we are better off from NASA research, for instance, is the spacesuits worn by astronauts have helped to develop clothing that is temperature regulated.

In another instance, wireless headset telephone technology is now a reality based on the technology that helped NASA’s Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin transmit their first words while on the surface of the Moon.

In addition, fire-resistant paints and coatings are now possible based in large part to the technology used for the heat shields used on past NASA capsules and space shuttles.

Many more examples are available at the new NASA website found at:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/mmgallery/index.html.