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Friedl, R. R., 1997 Atmospheric effects of subsonic aircraft Interim assessment report of the advanced subsonic technology program, NASA Reference Publication 1400. 

The process of spreading the word is additionally aided by a cooperative industrial trade press, which republishes Tech Brief information for expanded circulation. In 1977 innovations reported in Tech Briefs generated over 120,000 requests for additional technical information, concrete evidence that the publications program is playing an important part in inspiring broad secondary use of NASA technology. 

Ginzberg, Ell, James W. Kuhn, Jerome Schnee, and Boris Yavitz, Economic Impact of Large Public Programs The NASA Experience, Olympus Publishing Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1976. 

Detonation pressure and temperature of hydrogen-air mixtures starting from 101.3 kPa (1 atm) and 298 K (25°C). Chapman-Jouguet calculations using the Gordon-McBride code. (After Gordon, S. and McBride, B.J., Computer Program for Calculation of Complex Chemical Equilibrium Compositions and Applications, NASA Reference Publication, Cleveland, Ohio, 1994.)... 

Computer Program for Calculation of Complex Chemical Equilibrium Compositions and Applications, NASA Reference Publication, Cleveland, Ohio, 1994.)... 

Currently, NASA has four series of technical publications. These include NASA Technical Reports, which are unclassified presentations of a body of information which is considered to be complete and important NASA Technical Notes, which supplement but do not overlap the Technical Reports NASA Technical Memorandums, which are principally classified documents to be reissued as reports or notes if they are considered to be of general interest at the time they are declassified and NASA Technical Translations, which present information which has been published in a foreign language. NASA reports and publications are announced in Technical Publications Announcements. This is a biweekly abstract list of all published NASA documents. It is supplemented by the annually published Index of NASA Technical Publications. Both are available from the NASA Office of Technical Information and Educational Programs, Code ETD, Washington 25, D.C. 

Numerous examples of technology transfer brought about by NASA Tech Briefs and other TU publications have been documented as part of our continuing program evaluation and user follow-up activities. 

In spite of this permissive legislative mandate, the NASA technology utilization program is funded at less than 10 million per year. Several assessment studies have been launched in an effort to document and quantify the social and private returns to NASA s technology utilization efforts (17-lf). The results of these studies may help to determine whether the public investment in "spin-off" programs is currently adequate. Two of the completed studies are reviewed below. 

Beichman, C. A. Woolf, N. J. Lindensmith, C. A. The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) A NASA Origins Program to Search for Habitable Planets, JPL Publication 99-3 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 1999. 

CARES (Ceranfics Analysis and Reliability Evaluation of Structures) is a public-domain program from the National Aeronautic and Space Agency (NASA) that incorporates Weibull statistics. The program was formally known by the less friendly acronym SCARE (Structural Ceranfics Analysis and Reliability Evaluation). 

U.S. government agencies such as NASA and National Laboratories had computers by the end of the 1950s, and therefore started using polynomials in order to get thermochemical properties as a function of temperature. The functions were needed in order to calculate equilibrium compositions of reacting mixtures, which were extensively used before kinetic simulation programs were available. This was the reason for the publication of Duff and Bauer s paper [14], which included extensive equilibrium calculations. 

Publications and Graphics Department-NASA. Spinoff Fifty Years of NASA-Denved Technologies, 1958-2008. Washington, D.G. NASA Center for AeroSpace Information, 2008. Comprehensive review of the commercial products derived from technologies developed for the U.S. space program. 

The stimulus for the alkaline fuel cells was provided by the NASA space program, while that for the phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC) came from the public service gas and electricity utilities. The gas utilities, who were... 

The CAIB report may not have encouraged more reflective and fundamental learning to occur. It sent an inconsistent message about the need for public debate about national space policy and NASA s mission. On the one hand, it aimed to open up such a debate. On the other, it recommended that NASA continue flying shuttles. Questions about the need for NASA and the human space program to engage in routine operations rather than in space exploration are central to the debate about national space policy and to the issue of human safety (Klerkx, 2004). 

NASA, Space Station Program. Description, Applications and Opportunity, Noyes Publications, 1983. 

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