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Anthony Calomino: How NASA tech can protect firefighters

NASA has partnered with the Agriculture Department's Forest Service in an effort to better protect firefighters. The hope is that the same technology that prote...

August 7, 2015 8:39 am

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NASA has partnered with the Agriculture Department's Forest Service in an effort to better protect firefighters. The hope is that the same technology that protects NASA space crafts on re-entry can save firefighters trapped in an inferno. Anthony Calomino is a senior materials research engineer at NASA Langley. On the Federal Drive, he told Federal News Radio's Matt Wingfield more about the technology and the partnership.

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