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Michael Mewhinney                   April 9, 2003
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
Phone: 650/604-3937 or 650/604-9000
E-mail: Michael.Mewhinney{at}nasa.gov

Stephanie Schierholz
Space Foundation, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Phone: 719/576-8000
E-mail: stephanie{at}spacefoundation.org

RELEASE: 03-25AR

NASA PROJECT INDUCTED INTO SPACE TECHNOLOGY HALL OF FAME

A new technology developed for NASA called the Virtual Window that 
provides real-time 3-D images without the use of glasses or special 
helmets will be inducted this week into the Space Foundation's 2003 
Space Technology Hall of Fame.

Developed by Dimension Technologies Inc., of Rochester, N.Y., for 
NASA Ames Research Center, located in California's Silicon Valley, 
Virtual Window was created to interpret large masses of data, such as 
those associated with the fluid flow around space shuttle launches. 
NASA engineers believed that a 3-D presentation of this information 
would help interpret the information. Funding was provided through 
NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

"We are delighted that the Space Foundation has selected Virtual 
Window for induction into the 2003 Space Technology Hall of Fame," 
said Carolina Blake, chief of the Commercial Technology Office at 
NASA Ames.  Dr. Steven Zornetzer, acting deputy director of NASA 
Ames, along with representatives of Dimension Technologies, will 
accept the award.

Former NASA Administrator Richard Truly will present the awards April 
10 during the 15th anniversary Space Technology Hall of Fame dinner 
at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo.

To achieve the 3-D images, Dimension Technologies Inc. developed a 
series of flat panel liquid crystal display (LCD) screens that can 
switch instantly from 2-D to 3-D.  The display has numerous other 
commercial applications, such as computer games, protein analysis and 
surgical imaging.

Two other NASA field centers, NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida 
and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, will be inducted 
into the 2003 Space Technology Hall of Fame.  Adam Kissiah Jr., a 
retired KSC engineer, will be honored for his development of the 
digital hearing aid technology that led to the cochlear implant. 
Former Marshall Space Flight Center engineers John Richardson and 
Joseph Howard Kerr helped develop the technology for the VisiScreen 
Ocular Screening System, used to detect abnormalities in the human 
eye.

In cooperation with NASA, the Space Foundation established the Space 
Technology Hall of Fame in 1988 to honor the innovators who have
transformed space technology into commercial products, to increase
public awareness of the benefits of space spin-off technology and to
encourage further innovation.

Headquartered in Colorado Springs, the Space Foundation is a national 
non-profit organization whose mission is to vigorously advance and 
support civil, commercial and national security space endeavors and 
educational excellence.

For more information about the Space Foundation or the Space 
Technology Hall of Fame on the Internet, visit:

            http://www.spacefoundation.org/

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