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    5 Ways NASA Enabled Today’s Super Bowl

    by Claire Cameron Feb 07, 2016 3 minutes

    The shiny silver cloaks athletes now don to keep warm on the sidelines are actually aluminized mylar, which NASA’s Echo I, the agency’s first communications satellite, sported.NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

    Getting us into space is NASA’s raison d’etre. But the agency’s innovations don’t always stay inside NASA. They have a tendency to affect fields like medicine, communications—even football.

    This Sunday, the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers take the field at Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium for the 2016

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