If you’re looking for some inspiration for your newfangled spaceship concept—and aren’t we all? —NASA has good news for you. The agency recently released 56 of its patents into the public domain as a part of its Technology Transfer Program, which aims to democratize technologies developed at NASA to spur innovation in other sectors.

In addition to freeing this latest batch of patents into the open market wilds, the program has also revamped its website to include a searchable database of all of its available public patents. The idea is not only to generate fresh ideas for space-related inventions, but also to integrate the vast corpus of research conducted at NASA centers into a wide variety of other fields.

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