Published on March 19, 2017
NASA’s technology investments enable the nation to achieve its space exploration and discovery goals, but the innovations also benefit the public here on earth. The commercialization of NASA technologies has directly contributed to products and services in the fields of health and medicine, transportation, public safety, consumer goods, energy and environment, information technology and industrial productivity. As its engineers, scientists and technologists seek out this era’s great destination—Mars—NASA and its commercial partners are already creating a new wave of empowering technologies that will change life on Earth for the better.
