NASA's Impact on Our Lives
Discover the impact of NASA's innovations on our daily lives in the 2024 NASA Spinoff edition, featuring eco-friendly food alternatives, pandemic-response ventilators, precision eye surgery, educational coding lessons and more!
Read the 2024 NASA Spinoff Publication about NASA's Impact on Our Lives![NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, capped by the Orion spacecraft, sits on the mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida prior to the Artemis I mission. Artemis I, which launched in November of 2022, was the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: SLS, the Orion spacecraft, and supporting ground systems. It was also the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to the Moon.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/spinoff.2024.for_.nasa_.gov_.site1_.png?w=1920)
NASA’s Patent Portfolio
NASA maintains a portfolio of patents with commercial potential and makes them available to the public via licensing.
Learn More![JPL engineer Patrick Degrosse shows the inside of VITAL, a type of ventilator.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/vital.jpg?w=1024)
NASA’s Software Catalog
NASA’s Software Catalog offers hundreds of new software programs available for download at no cost.
Learn More![Laptop, tablet and phone with imagery from LandSat.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/software.png?w=1024)
Technology Transfer Expansion
NASA Technology Transfer Expansion (T2X) accelerates the commercialization of NASA-developed technology and new venture creation through strategic partnerships, entrepreneurship activities, and engagement with academia.
Learn More![Kaycie Gillette-Mallard, 2021 FedTech participant, presents her project, Video Magic, a video-based, remotely operated structural health-monitoring software.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/t2x.jpg?w=1024)
NASA’s Spinoff Publication
NASA’s Spinoff publication highlights NASA technologies that benefit life on Earth in the form of commercial products. We’ve profiled more than 2,000 spinoffs since 1976 — there’s more space in your life than you think!
Read More![NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, capped by the Orion spacecraft, sits on the mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida prior to the Artemis I mission. Artemis I, which launched in November of 2022, was the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: SLS, the Orion spacecraft, and supporting ground systems. It was also the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to the Moon.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/spinoff.2024-social-2.png?w=1024)