January 2025

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

NASA Invests in Artemis Studies to Support Long-Term Lunar Exploration

NASA awarded new study contracts Thursday to help support life and work on the lunar surface. As part of the agency’s blueprint for deep space exploration to support the Artemis campaign, nine American companies in seven states are receiving awards.

Posted January 23, 2025

Gemini

Artist’s Concept of Gemini Spacecraft

Two astronauts are seated inside the Gemini spacecraft in this artist’s concept made in January 1965. The Gemini program was an early NASA human spaceflight program designed to bridge the Mercury and Apollo programs. Its main goal was to test equipment and mission procedures in Earth orbit and to train astronauts and ground crew for […]

Posted January 23, 2025

Glenn Research Center

NASA Awards Logistics, Metrology Support Services Contract

NASA has awarded a small business set-aside contract to Apache Innovations JV of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide logistics, and related support services to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. The Glenn Logistics and Metrology (GLAM) contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with a maximum potential value of approximately $72.3 million.

Posted January 22, 2025

I Am Artemis

Space Launch System (SLS)

I am Artemis: Jon Carabello

Jon Carabello did not begin his career journey with an eye on space, but when NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration campaign came calling, he was all in.

Posted January 22, 2025

Asteroids

Earth's Moon

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Planetary Defense

Planetary Defense Coordination Office

Planetary Science

Study Finds Earth’s Small Asteroid Visitor Likely Chunk of Moon Rock

Lee esta historia en español aquí. The near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new insights to asteroid and lunar science.

Posted January 22, 2025

Manufacturing, Materials, 3-D Printing

Goddard Space Flight Center

Scientific Balloons

Space Communications & Navigation Program

Space Communications Technology

Technology

NASA 3D-Printed Antenna Takes Additive Manufacturing to New Heights

In fall 2024, NASA developed and tested a 3D-printed antenna to demonstrate a low-cost capability to communicate science data to Earth.

Posted January 22, 2025

Gateway Space Station

Artemis

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

Gateway Program

Johnson Space Center

Advanced Modeling Enhances Gateway’s Lunar Dust Defense

Ahead of more frequent and intense contact with dust during Artemis missions, NASA is developing new strategies to protect equipment as astronauts travel between the Moon and spacecraft like Gateway, humanity’s first lunar space station.

Posted January 22, 2025

General

NASA Faces of Technology: Meet Lauren Best Ameen

If you tell Lauren Best Ameen something is hard and cannot be done, she will likely reply, “Watch me.” As deputy manager for the Cryogenic Fluid Management Portfolio Project Office at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ameen and her team look for innovative ways to keep rocket fuel cold for long-duration missions. Work in […]

Posted January 22, 2025

Glenn Research Center

AeroSpace Frontiers

General

NASA Glenn Trains Instructors for After-School STEM Program

NASA and the U.S. Department of Education are teaming up to engage students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education during after-school hours.

Posted January 22, 2025

Glenn Research Center

General

NASA Glenn Helps Bring Joy to Children in Need

NASA’s Glenn Research Center continued a decades-long tradition of participating in the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program during the 2024 holiday season. On Dec.

Posted January 22, 2025