Spinoffs: How NASA Technologies Benefit Life on Earth

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Cleaning up water pollution, inventing inexpensive ventilators for hospitals, turning waste plastic into sidewalks, and making baby formula more nutritious—these and thousands of other innovations have come directly from research and development for space exploration. NASA technology transfer program executive Daniel Lockney takes us on a tour of Spinoff 21, the agency’s fascinating new report. Bruce Betts reminds us that a spin past Venus is sometimes the best way to head to far more distant worlds. That’s the inspiration for this week’s What’s Up space trivia contest. There’s much more to hear and discover at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/dan-lockney-nasa-spinoff-21

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0:00.5	NASA's innovations that benefit you and all of us this week on Planetary Radio.
0:10.2	Welcome. I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure
0:15.2	across our solar system and beyond. NASA's Dan Lockney is back with a big bag full of amazing
0:22.3	inventions and tools created for space that have been put to work down here on the Pale Blue Dot.
0:28.8	Dan will share highlights from the agency's brand new spin-off 21 collection
0:33.8	that features life-saving hospital ventilators, a new technique for removing toxic waste from
0:39.6	water, and a way to remove toxic aromas from our shoes, along with much much more.
0:46.5	Then Bruce Betts will spin on down from orbit with some surprising facts about past Mars missions,
0:52.5	a preview of the night sky, and a new space trivia contest.
0:57.2	Mars's atmosphere is so thin, I'm leaving space for your line here,
1:02.5	it's so thin that if you look straight up from the surface, you see stars and the black of space
1:07.8	even at local noon. That space fax tops the February 26 edition of the Downlink, our weekly newsletter.
1:15.6	It's followed by a reminder that we have captured all the drama of the Perseverance landing
1:20.4	at planetary.org. And if you've seen this spectacular panorama captured by Masscam Z,
1:27.0	wow. The launch of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, our dark mission,
1:32.9	has been delayed thanks in part to the darn pandemic. It's now expected to leave Earth between
1:39.2	November of this year and February of 2022, with its impactful arrival at Asteroid Dittamos
1:46.1	and its small companion expected in September of next year. We've got a great guide to this
1:51.8	mission you'll also find at planetary.org. There's a new downlink every Friday you can subscribe
1:58.4	and get it in your mailbox for free. The Oxford Dictionary's first definition of spin-off is a
2:05.5	byproduct or incidental result of a larger project. That's not bad except that there's nothing
2:11.7	incidental about the spin-offs that emerge from NASA. In fact, as you're about to hear from
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