Laboratory Information:
Marshall Space Flight Center
Technology Transfer Department
Code CD30
Huntsville, AL 35812
Website: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/home/index.html
Technology Transfer Website: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/partners/index.html
Agency/Department: NASA
Region: Southeast
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Ms. Carolyn McMillan
Phone: 256-544-9151
Fax: 256-544-1815
Email: carolyn.e.mcmillan@nasa.gov
Background/History of the Laboratory:
The Marshall
Space Flight Center, located in Huntsville, Ala., is one of
NASA's largest and most diversified installations. Today,
the Marshall Center is contributing its collective expertise,
ingenuity and energy as NASA and the nation carry out the
Vision for Space Exploration, which seeks to extend human
presence across the solar system. Engineers and scientists at
the Marshall Center use state-of-the-art equipment and
facilities to accomplish NASA's mission. Marshall manages
the key propulsion hardware and technologies of the space
shuttle, develops the next generation of space transportation
and propulsion systems, oversees science and hardware
development for the International Space Station, manages
projects and direct studies that will help pave the way back
to the moon, and handles a variety of associated scientific
endeavors to benefit space exploration and improve life here
on Earth. The Marshall Center has been a key contributor to
numerous significant NASA programs during the Agency's
45-plus-year history - from the 1961 flight of the first U.S.
astronaut into space, to the Apollo missions exploring the
moon, to development and operation of America's space
shuttle fleet, and construction of and scientific discovery
on board the space station.
Facilities:
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Patents and Licensing
- Patents and Licensing
- Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
- Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
- Partnerships
- Partnerships
- Space Act Agreement
- Space Act Agreement
- Technology Investment Program (TIP)
- Technology Investment Program (TIP)
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- Space Sciences
- Earth Science
- Hydrology and Climate
- Gamma-Ray Astronomy
- X-Ray Astronomy
- Space Plasma Physics
- Solar Physics
- Optics Research
- Fresnel Lens Technologies
- Ultra-Light Precision Membrane Optics
- High Efficiency Diffractive Optics
- Technologies for Lightweight, High Resolution X-Ray Optics
- Optical Phased Array Development
- Adjustable Focus Optical Correction Lens
- Microgravity Processing of ZBLAN Optical Fiber
- High Energy Replicated Optics (HERO)
- Power Beaming Demonstration
- Space Shuttle Propulsion
- Space Systems
- Space Station Hardware
- In-Space Transportation
- Gravity Probe
- Launch Vehicles
- Lunar Lander
