Spinoff 2017

This annual volume, available as a Standing Order by using Standing Order code: ZSPIN –to for immediate shipment upon new year stock –Sign up for product standing orders at this link: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/standing-orders The 2017 Spinoff volume celebrates our Nation’s successes with robotics missions and looks to a future of human spaceflight and planetary exploration enabled by cutting-edge technology—with ever more down-to-Earth benefits sure to follow.  This year's volume includes products and services at work in every sector of the economy.  Some of the highlights contained in Spinoff 2017 include laser imaging technology that discovered snow on Mars and now helps archaeologists uncover humanity's past; Earth-observing satellites that spot forest fires before they spread; and software that might help create supersonic jets for all of us.  Private industry manufacturers, scientists, inventors, operational improvement officers, American citizens, and students may be most interested in these NASA developments that impact human life.   Since this text is highly illustrated throughout, middle school through high school students could use this resource for classroom essays and undergraduate and graduate students could use this scientific resource for further research and development based on these featured technologies. Middle school, high school, academic, including community college, and public libraries will want to have this resource in their science and technology collections for patron use and research.   Other products produced by NASA can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/550