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Destination Tomorrow: Bringing the Future into Focus is a series
of 30-minute educational television programs that focus on NASA
research, past, present, and future, and is designed for educators,
parents, and adult (lifelong) learners.
Each program in this award-winning series follows a magazine style
format with segments ranging from three to eight minutes in length.
The development of each program is based on the theory, principles,
and educational research as they apply to how adults learn and
apply knowledge.
For more detailed information visit the Destination
Tomorrow website.
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PROGRAM
ONE
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Synthetic Vision
- The Fetal Heart Rate Monitor
- John Houbolt and Lunar Orbit-Rendezvous
- Measuring Pollution with LiDAR
- How Does An Airplane Fly?
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PROGRAM
TWO
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Icing Research
- Painless Dentistry
- Richard Whitcomb and the 'Area Rule' Concept
- Morphing and Birld-Like Airplanes
- How Do Sensors Work?
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PROGRAM
THREE
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Creating Microgravity On Earth
- A Treatment Option for ADHD
- Dale Reed and 'Lifting Bodies'
- Reducing Airport Traffic Delays
- How Does a Helicopter Fly
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PROGRAM
FOUR
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X-43 Space Vehicle
- Nanotubes
- How It Works: Wind Tunnels
- The Flexible Wing
- The Advanced Landing Dynamics Facility
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PROGRAM
FIVE
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Impact Dynamics Research Facility
- Intra-cranial Pressure Monitoring Device
- How It Works: Turbine Engines
- Development of the X-15
- The Blended Wing Body
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PROGRAM
SIX
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The Exploration of Mars
- New Innovations in Children's Car Seats
- How It Works: Flight Simulators
- Dr. Max Faget: Inside NASA's Space Program
- Various Rolls Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Play in Society
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PROGRAM
SEVEN
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A New Program at NASA called GIFTS
- The Next Generation in Heart Assist Devices
- How It Works: Virtual Reality
- The Successes of the Viking Mission
- NASAS Aviation Safety Program
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PROGRAM
EIGHT
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Materials International Space Station Experiment
- A New Type of Catalytic Converter
- How It Works: Lasers
- The Transonic Dynamics Wind Tunnel at NASA Langley
- A New Turbulence Warning Systems
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PROGRAM
NINE
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Helios Aircraft
- Smart Probe
- The Gemini Mission
- Quiet Aircraft Technology Program
- Space Suits
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PROGRAM
TEN
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Aurora Borealis
- Parachute Recovery System
- Air Traffic Control
- American Fighter Aircraft of WWII
- Atmospheric Satellite Systems
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PROGRAM
ELEVEN
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Solar Sails
- Preserving Historical Documents
- Researching Flat Spin
- The Next Generation of Reusable Launch Vehicles
- How Global Positioning System Work
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PROGRAM
TWELVE
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Century of Flight - A look back at the first century of powered
flight and how it was realized by the Wright Brothers at Kitty
Hawk in December of 1903. Also, new innovations that could be
the first steps in the next revolution of aircraft design.
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PROGRAM THIRTEEN
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The Mars Tumbleweed, a wind driven rover
- Robot assistants will help astronauts with routine tasks
- How It Works: Telescopes
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PROGRAM FOURTEEN
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An update on the Mars Exploration Rover
- A new type of catalytic converter
- Using video games to treat hyperactivity
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PROGRAM FIFTEEN
- Studying Titan, Saturn's largest moon
- Using 'Aero-braking' to slow spacecraft
- Creating advanced materials
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PROGRAM SIXTEEN
- Food Technology
- Packaging and processing food for space
- What do astronauts eat?
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PROGRAM SEVENTEEN
- Food Technology Part 2
- Future food technologies
- Developing foods for long term missions
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PROGRAM EIGHTEEN
- NASA's new plans for Space Exploration
- Robotic Missions
- Other Worlds: getting there and staying there
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PROGRAM NINETEEN
- Future of aeronautics research at NASA
- Airplanes on Mars
- NASA's aeronautics success stories
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PROGRAM TWENTY
- X-ray vision devices for doctors
- Scouting for landing sites on Mars
- The history of the Space Shuttle
- How It Works: Sonic Booms
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PROGRAM TWENTY-ONE
The Aviation Safety Program
- Single Aircraft Accident Prevention
- The Impact Dynamics Research Facility
- The Icing Research Tunnel
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PROGRAM TWENTY-TWO
- Small Aircraft Transportation System
- A ballistic parachute system for small aircraft
- Other advances in safety technology
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PROGRAM TWENTY-THREE
- Success of the Cassini-Huygens mission
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Future robotic missions to other planets
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How geo-spacial data is used with GPS
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PROGRAM TWENTY-FOUR
- Mars Phoenix mission
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Viking mission to Mars - 30 years later
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How space suits work
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PROGRAM TWENTY-FIVE
- Radiation protection
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Radiation on the Moon and Mars
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The effects of radiation on human tissue
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