NASA Technology Brings Golden Age of Exploration to Earth

Spinoff 2026 marks the publication’s 50th year documenting commercial uses of NASA technology. This edition’s cover features NASA astronaut Alan Bean holding an environmental sample container filled with lunar soil during the Apollo 12 mission of November 1969. NASA astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., who took this picture, is reflected in Bean’s helmet visor.

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As NASA fosters technologies needed to live and work farther away from home than ever before, the agency’s Technology...