The design increases the aspect ratio to reduce drag.
. This includes developing aeronautical technologies that eventually make their way to the types of commercial airplanes most of us use today.
“When you fly in any kind of aircraft, you are surrounded by NASA technology,” Nelson said. Developments in airplane design like winglets, the small vertical extensions of wings, were created by NASA in the 1970s and are now ubiquitous on passenger aircraft.
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