Volume 4, Number 2    May/June 1996

Contents

Welcome to Innovation

• Commercial Development Mission Update
• Bed and Breakfast 100 Miles Up!

• SBIR Applies Technology to NASA and Industry
• New UV Laser Source for NASA and Industry
• Composite Pipe Systems Save Billions
• First Graduate Logs $3.5M, Projects 20 New Jobs
• Communication Tool for Severely Disabled Students
• "Cool" Technology Cuts Rocket Costs, Protects Earth

• Great Ideas Could End up in Space
• Laser-Initiated Ordnance Technology
• One-of-a-Kind Camera Records What Eyes Cannot
• Faster, Truer Research With World's Strongest X-Rays

• Upcoming Mission Features OSAT Payloads
• BETSCE Cools Infrared Sensors
• SPACEHAB-4 Houses Product Development Payloads
• Inflatable Antenna Experiment
• Launch Voucher Program

• 1996 Space Technology Hall of Fame
• Wanted: New Inventions for Technology 2006
• Station Identification: X-Ray Chrystallography Facility
• NCTN Directory
• Publications/Events/Software

• Credits