Volume 4,

Number 1

March/April 1996

Contents

Welcome to Innovation

• Commercial Development Mission Update
• The Exploration and Development of Space

• Thermacore Receives Award
• Cryocooler Technology for Communication Systems
• Hubble Fights Breast Cancer
• NASA Expertise Helps Company Recycle Tires
• NASA Selects Small Business Projects
• NASA Speeds Marine Jet to Market

• RLV Program Receives "DC-XA" Rocket
• RHETT: Russian Hall Effect Thruster Technology
• NASA Detector Could Predict Tornadoes
• NASA New Millennium Program Leads NASA's Technology Revolution

  American Innovators: Nikola Tesla-Pioneer of AC Power Distribution

  Technology Today: Real-Time Sensor Data Validation System

• CMC Develops System to Foster Novel Drug Discoveries
• Satellite Project Is Down to Earth

• Measures and Metrics
• Station Identification: A New Window on the World
• National Commercial Technology Network
• Publications/Videos/Events/Software

• Credits