Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Atlantis Rooms
Start Date
27-4-1995 1:00 PM
End Date
27-4-1995 4:00 PM
Description
The Inventions and Contributions Board was chartered by the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to recommend to the NASA Administrator awards of up to $100,000 to contributors of scientific and technical innovations that are significant to NASA's mission and that have been sponsored, supported, promoted, or used by NASA. Over the last 37 years, NASA has granted over 60,000 so-called "Space Act Awards" to worthy recipients worth over $19,000,000 (1994 dollars). During the last four years, there have been a number of awards that have involved success stories for NASA-derived technology wherein not only has the innovation been useful for space applications, but also to the private sector for terrestrial uses. The most significant of these include applications in water treatment, manufacture of electronics, new materials, telecommunications, microburst detection, medical technology, and environmental technologies. We estimate that these recent contributions may have an impact on U.S. GNP of over $10 billion. This paper identifies seven specific Space Act Award cases within these fields that save lives, generate new jobs, reduce the cost of goods, raise the quality of life, and improve the productivity of American industry.
Paper Session III-A - NASA's Greatest Inventions and Contributions of Dual-Use Technologies in the 1990's
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Atlantis Rooms
The Inventions and Contributions Board was chartered by the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to recommend to the NASA Administrator awards of up to $100,000 to contributors of scientific and technical innovations that are significant to NASA's mission and that have been sponsored, supported, promoted, or used by NASA. Over the last 37 years, NASA has granted over 60,000 so-called "Space Act Awards" to worthy recipients worth over $19,000,000 (1994 dollars). During the last four years, there have been a number of awards that have involved success stories for NASA-derived technology wherein not only has the innovation been useful for space applications, but also to the private sector for terrestrial uses. The most significant of these include applications in water treatment, manufacture of electronics, new materials, telecommunications, microburst detection, medical technology, and environmental technologies. We estimate that these recent contributions may have an impact on U.S. GNP of over $10 billion. This paper identifies seven specific Space Act Award cases within these fields that save lives, generate new jobs, reduce the cost of goods, raise the quality of life, and improve the productivity of American industry.
Comments
Spin-Offs and Setbacks
Session Chairman: Paul Curto, Chief Technologist of the Inventions and Contributions Board (ICB), NASA Headquarters
Session Organizer: Suzanne Hodge