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Device that helps make space travel possible named ‘Coolest Thing Made in Illinois’ - The Times Weekly

The NASA Standard Initiator won the annual ‘Makers Madness’ competition Astronauts just returned from their first voyage around the moon since 1972 and a device built by an Illinois company helped fuel the mission’s success. Created and manufactured in Downers Grove, the NASA Standard Initiator, or NSI, is a small electrically activated pyrotechnic device that initiates propulsion by sparking a chain reaction of heat and pressure in space flight…
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thetimesweekly.com broke the news on Thursday, April 23, 2026.
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