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Spinoff story
NASA’s Moon Shot Launched Commercial Fuel Cell Industry
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
The first practical fuel cells were developed for Johnson Space Center in preparation for NASA’s Apollo missions because batteries would have weighed too much. The group that produced these and subsequent NASA fuel cells is now called HyAxiom Inc. and sells commercial fuel cells to power buildings and even utilities, still producing them at the same facility in South Windsor, Connecticut.