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Johnson Space Center Hosts High-Tech Exhibition
By Glen Golightly
Houston Bureau Chief
posted: 06:58 am ET
22 October 1999
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Hed hereHOUSTON Johnson Space Center rolls out its high-tech equipment and processes for the private sector with Inspection99. From November 3 to November 5, the space center hosts business and industry representatives to review technology and applications having potential for commercial uses. Visitors can also tour some of JSCs unique facilities, such as mission control and the neutral buoyancy laboratory, along with demonstrations including robotics, virtual reality and biomedical research. Microscopic fullerene fibers are among the technologies to be demonstrated. The fibers are tubular structures with the potential to be 30 to 100 times stronger than steel with one-sixth of the weight. Rice University professor Dr. Richard Smalley received a 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry with two other researchers for the discovery of the fibers. Smalley heads the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice and works with NASA in developing applications for fullerene fibers.
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