NASA Awards Contracts for Flight, Payload Integration Services
NASA has selected 15 companies to provide flight and payload integration services to advance technologies and procedures for operating in space, including testing in high-altitude,...
Category : Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA Solar Sail Technology Passes Crucial Deployment Test
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA Marshall Space Flight Center technologists Les Johnson and Leslie McNutt at Redwire Space...
BioNutrients: A Five-Year Experiment in Space Nears Completion
Research scientists Sandra Vu, left, Natalie Ball, center, and Hiromi Kagawa, right, process BioNutrients production packs. NASA/Brandon Torres NASA’s bio-manufacturing experiment called BioNutrients is testing a way...
NASA Administrator Names New Head of Space Technology
Kurt Vogel portrait, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) Dr. Kurt “Spuds” Vogel will...
Brr, It’s Cold in Here! NASA’s Cryo Efforts Beyond the Atmosphere
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A 2019 image of the SHIIVER tank sitting inside the In-Space Propulsion Facility’s vacuum...
Funding Future Tech: NASA Names 2024 Innovative Concept Studies
A collage of illustrations highlighting the novel concepts proposed by the 2024 NIAC Phase I awardees. Credit: clockwise, from upper right: Steven Benner, Beijia Zhang,...
NASA, Partners Continue to Advance Space Tech on Suborbital Flights
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) New Shepard, Blue Origin’s reusable suborbital rocket, rising from the company’s Launch Site One...
Armstrong Flight Research Center: A Year in Review
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) It was an abundant year of innovation, exploration, and inspiration for NASA’s Armstrong Flight...
NASA’s Webb Telescope Improves Simulation Software
5 min read NASA’s Webb Telescope Improves Simulation Software The James Webb Space Telescope captures a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as...
NASA Supports Tests of Dust Sensor to Aid Lunar Landings
2 min read NASA Supports Tests of Dust Sensor to Aid Lunar Landings University of Central Florida researchers tested an instrument designed to measure the...
