Dave Miller Looking at Things

Prof. Dave Miller's most important job as NASA Chief Technologist is to Look At Things, and he is very good at his job. (This website is not affiliated with NASA)

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NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at the inflatable space habitat and decides one astronaut is probably a sufficient source of hot air for inflation.

Image source: NASA Langley Research Center/Office of the Chief Technologist

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NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at the audience member who asked whether pirate-ninjas are a real unit of measurement and then waxed poetic about Matt Damon’s hair and tries to figure out how to steer the conversation back to Important Things like Mars.

Image source: NASA/Joel Kowsky

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NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at the machine that will tell us how much CO2 is gathering in the atmosphere like an ominous cloud (using LIDAR).

Image source: NASA Langley Research Center/Office of the Chief Technologist

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NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at the sweet laser communication system that makes his iPhone feel a bit like a Nokia 5110.

Image source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Office of the Chief Technologist

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NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at RoboSimian nostalgically, wondering why he gave up his promising career in back-alley botfighting.

Image source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Office of the Chief Technologist

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NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at his captivated audience at NASA Glenn and wishes wistfully that his students were this attentive.

Image source: NASA Glenn Research Center/Office of the Chief Technologist

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NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at a hot stove and still decides to touch it (albeit with an aerogel oven mitt).

Image source: NASA Glenn Research Center/ Office of the Chief Technologist

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NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at his future salad, grown from seed pillows and nourished by LEDs.

Image source: NASA Kennedy Space Center  

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NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at a space water treatment plant that, like all things space, takes ‘reduce, recycle, reuse’ to the…extreme.

Image source: NASA Kennedy Space Center  

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NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at a fancy space duster, designed to move moon dust away from a surface (such as a rover solar array) using electric fields.

Image source: NASA Kennedy Space Center  

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NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at the 3D printed regolith heat shield that will one day prevent future NASA Chief Technologists from burning up in the atmosphere when they return from Looking At Things on Mars. 

Image source: NASA Kennedy Space Center  

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NASA Chief Technologist Dave Miller looks desperately for an escape from The Rock at the Bay Area Science Festival (and records a podcast in the process.)

Image source: Tested.com

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NASA Chief Technologist Dave Miller looks at the future (of exploration technology) at NASA Technology Day on the Hill 2015 Image source: NASA Office of the Chief Technologist

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NASA Chief Technologist Dave Miller looking at Ridley Scott before a screening of ‘The Martian’. Image source: NASA Office of the Chief Technologist 

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NASA Chief Technologist Dave Miller looking at a solar array on Astrobotic's Griffin moon lander. Image source: NASA Office of the Chief Technologist

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NASA Chief Technologist Dave Miller looking at an arcjet at ARC. It appears to be having a bad hair day. Image source: NASA Office of the Chief Technologist

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NASA Chief Technologist David Miller supervises repairs of the NASA Headquarters printer. Also pictured (and helping) Deputy Chief Technologist Jim Adams and Astronaut Cady Coleman. (Printer ultimately fixed by office admin staff.) Image source: NASA Office of the Chief Technologist