Real Spinoffs

40 years after moon landing, public unaware of NASA’s tech contributions, nextgov.com
“Keith Cowing, a former NASA scientist who now compiles the space policy blog NASA Watch, noted that the National Institutes of Health “has a lot of breast cancer imaging that comes from systems that were developed at NASA.”
Technology Transfer Hubble Fights Breast Cancer, Volume 4, Number 1, March/April 1996
“A unique marriage between Hubble Space Telescope astronomers and cancer researchers has produced an image-processing technique that shows promise in detecting early breast cancer. Employing techniques used to correct the blurry images sent by Hubble prior to the 1993 servicing mission, this method is designed to detect microcalcifications, an early sign of breast cancer. A group of astronomical and medical researchers from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, and the Lombardi Cancer Research Center at the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., is testing this technique to detect microcalcifications in digitized mammograms.”