NASA Awards Third Crowdsourcing Contract Iteration
Credit: NASA NASA continues to collaborate with global communities to solve complex challenges through crowdsourcing with a series of 25 new NASA Open Innovation Service...
Category : Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA Tests New Ways to Stick the Landing in Challenging Terrain
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully...
Top Prize Awarded in Lunar Autonomy Challenge to Virtually Map Moon’s Surface
NASA named Stanford University of California winner of the Lunar Autonomy Challenge, a six-month competition for U.S. college and university student teams to virtually map...
NASA Kennedy Breathes Life into Moon Soil Testing
Researchers with NASA’s Exploration Research and Technology programs conduct molten regolith electrolysis testing inside Swamp Works at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday,...
NASA Advances Precision Landing Technology with Field Test at Kennedy
Landing on the Moon is not easy, particularly when a crew or spacecraft must meet exacting requirements. For Artemis missions to the lunar surface, those...
NASA Moon Observing Instrument to Get Another Shot at Lunar Ops
The Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) for NASA’s Volatile Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission is prepared for packing inside a laboratory in the...
Goodnight, Moon: NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture Lunar Sunset
NASA/Olivia Tyrrell This compressed, resolution-limited gif shows the view of lunar sunset from one of the six Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1...
NASA, USGS, Industry Explore Off-World Resource Development
A group of attendees of the joint NASA-USGS workshop, Planetary Subsurface Exploration for Science and Resources, gathers for a photo at NASA’s Ames Research Center...
NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture First-of-its-Kind Moon Landing Footage
4 Min Read NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture First-of-its-Kind Moon Landing Footage This compressed, resolution-limited video features a preliminary sequence of the Blue Ghost...
NASA Receives Some Data Before Intuitive Machines Ends Lunar Mission
Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 captured an image March 6, 2025, after landing in a crater from the Moon’s South Pole. The lunar lander is on its...
