Volume 10, Number 4 • July/August 2002 • Moving Forward

Space Technology Hall of Fame Nominations Sought

The Space Foundation is currently accepting nominations for 2003’s 15th anniversary of the Space Technology Hall of Fame.

Nominations for the Space Hall of Fame are solicited from NASA Centers, the Departments of Defense, Commerce and Transportation, and commercial aerospace and technology companies. Each organization may nominate up to three aerospace spin-off technologies, and re-nomination is permitted.

Applications are submitted to a panel of judges for review and then undergo comprehensive due diligence. The deadline for nominations is October 31, 2002. Nomination forms can be downloaded from the Space Technology Hall of Fame Web site, which can be accessed through the Space Foundation’s site at www.spacefoundation.org. Honorees will be announced in February and honored during the 19th National Space Symposium on April 10, 2003 in Colorado Springs.

Remediation Technology Tour and Demo

NASA and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are sponsoring a Remediation Technology Tour and Demo on November 7, 2002. This event, which will be held at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will showcase two technologies being demonstrated as part of the EPA’s Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) program.

The featured technologies include:
NASA’s Emulsified Zero-Valent Iron (EZVI)
Bioaugmentation Using KB1

The Remediation Technology Tour and Demo is a free event. The registration deadline is October 24. Non-US citizens MUST register by October 7. Attendance for this event will be limited, and NASA will allow individuals to participate on a first-come-first-serve basis. For more information about this event and/or to register, please visit http://nasa.rti.org/ksc/remediation/TechTour.cfm

SBIR/STTR Conference

Coming soon, the National SBIR/STTR Conference October 28 - November 1 in Burlington, VT.

Vist our registration site at: http://www.sbirworld.com/vermont

Heads-Up

NASA’s annual publication Spinoff documents NASA technologies initially developed for space missions and commercialized by industry for the development of products and services. Look for the next issue, Spinoff 2002, in October and visit the Spinoff Web site at http://netsrv.casi.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff.html or http://nctn.hq.nasa.gov Q