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  2. What If? 2 (book) - Wikipedia

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    A follow-up to Munroe's 2014 title What If?, the book was released on September 13, 2022 to generally positive reviews, with Time saying, "Science isn't easy, but in Munroe's capable hands, it surely can be fun." [1]

  3. NASA spin-off technologies - Wikipedia

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    NASA. Spinoff 1976. A Bicentennial Report. 1977 NASA. Spinoff 1998, publication NASA. Spinoff 2007. publication. Spinoff is a NASA publication featuring technology made available to the public. Since 1976, NASA has featured an average of 50 technologies each year in the annual publication, and Spinoff maintains a searchable database of these ...

  4. Aerospace - Wikipedia

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    Spinoffs refer to any technology that is a direct result of coding or products created by NASA and redesigned for an alternate purpose. [13] These technological advancements are one of the primary results of the aerospace industry, with $5.2 billion worth of revenue generated by spinoff technology, including computers and cellular devices. [13]

  5. Research spin-off - Wikipedia

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    A research spin-off is a company that falls into at least one of the four following categories: [1] Companies that have an Equity investment from a national library or university; Companies that license technology from a public research institute or university; Companies that consider a university or public sector employee to have been a founder

  6. Amy Shira Teitel - Wikipedia

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    Teitel's first book was based on research for her master's degree thesis. Breaking the Chains of Gravity (2015) tells the story of America's nascent space program. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The book describes the early pioneers of rockets in the late 1920s, up to the formation of NASA.

  7. Criticism of the Space Shuttle program - Wikipedia

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    The "Space Transportation System" (NASA's formal name for the overall Shuttle program) was created to transport crewmembers and payloads into low Earth orbits. [10] It would afford the opportunity to conduct science experiments on board the shuttle to be used to study the effects of space flight on humans, animals and plants.

  8. Category:NASA spin-off technologies - Wikipedia

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  9. Studied Space Shuttle designs - Wikipedia

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    From the late 1980s to the early 2000s NASA, in one form or another, pursued the Crew Return Vehicle; a small spaceplane/capsule capable of returning crew from a space station in the event of an emergency. Candidates evaluated included an Apollo-derived capsule, NASA's HL-20, HL-10, and M2F2, and the Air Force's X-24A. A sub-scale variant of ...