NASA’s Decline as Leader in Nanotechnology Research

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NASA’s Decline as Leader in Nanotechnology Research

A recent study out of Rice University ("NASA's Relationship with Nanotechnology: Past, Present and Future Challenges" ; pdf) points out that NASA is “the only U.S. federal agency to scale back investment in this area [nanotechnology]”. The numbers in the report, produced by the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice, are alarming: “NASA reduced annual nanotechnology R&D expenditures from $47 million to $20 million.” And the Ames Research Center in California, which had set up its Center for Nanotechnology five years before the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) was even established , had its staff reduced from 60 researchers with an $18 billion budget down to 10 researchers and a $2 million budget. The Rice report points to two events leading to this decline in NASA’s nanotechnology funding. In 2003, the space shuttle Columbia accident put NASA’s prog...

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