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We’d like to wish a happy Star Wars Day to the Goddard community! May the Fourth be with you…always.
From all of us at the Strategic Partnerships Office (SPO), we’d like to wish you a happy Fiscal New Year.
Check out the latest version of our newsletter, The Innovation Catalyst, for more information on important metrics and milestones from the previous fiscal year.
We’d also like to wish everybody a happy Halloween! Our staff welcomed in the fall season with NASA-inspired pumpkin carving!
If you’d like to carve a NASA pumpkin, you can download these GSFC pumpkin carving stencils.
If you decide to join in on the pumpkin-carving fun, send us pictures of your NASA Technology themed pumpkins to amy.k.klarup@nasa.gov and we’ll share them in the next newsletter.
If you’d like to sign up to receive the newsletter, please email valeriya.a.nakshun@nasa.gov
As always, please visit https://invention.nasa.gov/ to submit a new technology report (NTR).
The Covid-19 pandemic has certainly made FY2020 a challenging one in many respects, but we hope to see positive developments and change as we move forward into the next fiscal year and beyond.
The “Goddard Reads” virtual event series celebrates 9 years of partnership between NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Tom Doherty Associates, LLC (Tor-Forge or Tor Books), a leading publisher of science fiction works. Using a Space Act Agreement to promote the science and minimize the fiction in “science fiction,” Goddard has connected subject matter experts in science and engineering with Tor Books authors. Through this collaboration, not only will the NASA-inspired works of fiction promote public awareness of NASA’s programs and missions, but they will also inspire young minds to embrace careers in science and technology as exciting and fulfilling opportunities.
The “Goddard Reads” virtual event series helps to explore how Tor Books authors and their reader base can benefit from subject matter expertise from NASA and other sources, while also featuring Goddard internal science communicators, who will share their experience working at the intersection of writing and STEM.
On this fourth of May in the 20th year of the 21st Earthian century, the Strategic Partnerships Office (SPO) has transmitted a message to Goddard innovators from a galaxy far, far away. SPO aims to further NASA’s mission to bring space technology back to Earth, and we need the help of Innovators like you to complete this mission!
View SPO’s special “May the Fourth” greeting below.
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In the 1960s, two famous American establishments were hitting their stride. The first Super Bowl took place in 1967, and two years later, NASA landed men on the Moon. Now, more than five decades later, American football and the space agency are coming together in the name of technology transfer.
Time and time again, the path of basic research takes surprising twists and turns.
“Why does NASA spend money on technologies to look at black holes when there are so many things on Earth we need to fix?” asks Keith Gendreau, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “It turns out that the work we do here impacts people in tangible ways.”
On the heels of last month’s first-ever all-woman spacewalk, NASA and the Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) announced a partnership to provide professional basketball players with opportunities to explore the agency’s technology licensing and its various applications.
The HealthReel wellness app provides the user with metrics on his or her body composition and metabolism.
Health and fitness have played a role throughout Superbowl champion Obafemi Ayanbadejo’s life. After retiring from the NFL, Ayanbadejo graduated with his MBA from Johns Hopkins University and began pursuing a career as an entrepreneur.
In 2018, he worked with the Strategic Partnerships Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to license a patented NASA algorithm with relevance to the health industry, and now, Ayanbadejo is beta testing a new mobile wellness app that seeks to provide highly accurate and detailed metrics on personal health. The app, known as HealthReel, uses the NASA algorithm and a personal smartphone camera to collect data and generate information on an individual’s body fat percentage, ideal caloric intake, and approximate risk for health conditions, among other stats. [Read more…]
The Robotic Operations Center acts as an incubator for satellite servicing technologies that will allow NASA to repair, refuel, and upgrade spacecraft. In this lab, engineers test robotic capabilities in space-like conditions before they are put to action in orbit. Photo credit: NASA
The Robotic Operations Center at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is the testing ground for new technologies in development by the Satellite Servicing Projects Division (SSPD), a Goddard team dedicated to ending the era of “one-and-done” spacecraft through robotic servicing missions. Now, NASA’s technologists and technology transfer professionals are seeking to transfer these technologies to interested U.S. companies, ultimately helping to jumpstart a competitive market. [Read more…]
Participants of the meeting gathered in the NASA Goddard Visitor Center at the end of the day. Photo credit: NASA Goddard/Taylor Mickal
On July 24, NBA athletes with the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland to learn about NASA’s technology transfer and commercialization opportunities. [Read more…]