Each year NASA publishes a magazine highlighting some of the inventions that have trickled down from space into modern day life. Through NASA’s Technology Transfer Program, technologies developed for research and space exploration are licensed and adapted for commercial and industrial uses. One company that has benefited greatly from the program is John Deere. HIGH-FLYING NASA MISSION SETS NEW GPS WORLD RECORDTerry Pickett is the manager of advanced engineering group at John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group and helped develop the AutoTrac system. Without the help of NASA, he says that the company would have experienced delays in bringing the technology to market.

Source: Fox News November 22, 2016 20:10 UTC