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Spinoff story
Space Suit Technologies Protect Deep-Sea Divers
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Paragon Space Development Corporation is a Tucson, Arizona-based firm specializing in aerospace engineering and technology development, and is a major supplier of environmental control and life support system and subsystem design for the aerospace industry. Through its work with NASA, the company has developed a suit for protecting divers who are called on to work in extreme and dangerous conditions, such as high pressure, toxic chemical spills, the hot waters of the Persian Gulf, and chemical warfare agents.