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Globe Safety Product's Inquiry Regarding Firefighters Breathing Apparatus Developed for NASA by Scott Aviation Company

PSAD-77-68 Published: Feb 22, 1977. Publicly Released: Nov 05, 1982.
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Globe Safety Products, Inc.'s concerns about a firefighters' breathing apparatus developed by Scott Aviation Company under a 1972 NASA contract were investigated. Globe claimed that NASA improperly allowed Scott to use Government tooling and design data generated under the contract to develop a commercial breathing apparatus and that NASA financed a publication which advertised the Scott apparatus.

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