WSU student helps design safer firefighter jacket for NASA competition
A WSU graduate student pitched a safer design for firefighter jackets at NASA’s Johnson Space Center late last year.
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Using satellite images to measure impact of longer growing season
WSU researchers will use a new grant from NASA to scour more than 20 years of imagery and learn whether the farming technique of double cropping is increasing in the state.
Improved food packaging will extend shelf life
WSU researcher Shyam Sablani has received a $450,000 grant to develop plastic packaging that will extend the shelf life of prepared food up to five years.
Space Exploration In One Lifetime
In 1957, several years before I was born, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik – the first man-made object to leave the Earth’s atmosphere. That simple little satellite captured people’s imagination around the world. We Americans were alarmed that the Soviets had “beat us” to space.