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Exploring Deep Space: NASA Announces 2025 RASC-AL Competition 

NASA has officially announced the 2025 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition, an initiative to fuel innovation for aerospace systems concepts, analogs, and technology prototyping through university engagement.
Posted August 1, 2024
Humans in Space
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Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
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Exploring the Moon: Episode Previews

Discover. Learn. Explore. NASA’s video series, Exploring the Moon, takes a “behind-the-scenes” look at humanity’s next steps on the Moon. Here is your first look at some of the key moments from the upcoming series! Scroll down or navigate through CONTENTS, to the side, to explore! Watch the Series Trailer Now! Who, What, When, Where, […]
Posted July 19, 2024
Space Launch System (SLS)
Artemis
Artemis 2
Common Exploration Systems Development Division
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Marshall Space Flight Center
Michoud Assembly Facility
Stennis Space Center

NASA Ships Moon Rocket Stage Ahead of First Crewed Artemis Flight

NASA rolled out the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s core stage for the Artemis II test flight from its manufacturing facility in New Orleans on Tuesday for shipment to the agency’s spaceport in Florida. The rollout is key progress on the path to NASA’s first crewed mission to the Moon under the Artemis campaign. Using […]
Posted July 17, 2024
Artemis
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Artemis Campaign Development Division
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Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
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Behind the Scenes of a NASA ‘Moonwalk’ in the Arizona Desert

NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas recently performed four moonwalk simulations to help NASA prepare for its Artemis III mission. Due to launch in September 2026, Artemis III will land two, yet-to-be-selected, astronauts at the Moon’s South Pole for the first time.
Posted July 1, 2024
Missions
Artemis
Artemis 2
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Marshall Space Flight Center
Michoud Assembly Facility
Space Launch System (SLS)

NASA Invites Media to Rollout Event for Artemis II Moon Rocket Stage

NASA will roll the fully assembled core stage for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will launch the first crewed Artemis mission out of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in mid-July. The 212-foot-tall stage will be loaded on the agency’s Pegasus barge for delivery to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Media […]
Posted June 8, 2024
Human Landing System Program
Artemis
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Astronauts
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
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NASA Astronauts Practice Next Giant Leap for Artemis 

The physics remain the same, but the rockets, spacecraft, landers, and spacesuits are new as NASA and its industry partners prepare for Artemis astronauts to walk on the Moon for the first time since 1972. NASA astronaut Doug “Wheels” Wheelock and Axiom Space astronaut Peggy Whitson put on spacesuits, developed by Axiom Space, to interact […]
Posted June 4, 2024
Humans in Space
Andre Douglas
Artemis
Artemis 3
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Goddard Space Flight Center
Johnson Space Center
Kathleen Rubins
Science Mission Directorate
Spacesuits
xEVA & Human Surface Mobility

NASA Tests Technology, Practices Artemis Moonwalks in Arizona Desert

To prepare for exploring the Moon during NASA’s Artemis campaign, the agency is conducting a week-long field test in the lunar-like landscape of San Francisco Volcanic Field near Flagstaff, Arizona to practice moonwalk scenarios.
Posted May 14, 2024
Langley Research Center
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

NASA Selects University Teams to Compete in 2024 RASC-AL Competition

Fourteen undergraduate and graduate teams from across the country were selected as finalists to compete in one of NASA’s longest running student challenges — the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition.
Posted April 5, 2024
NASA Headquarters
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
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Budget & Annual Reports
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NASA to Highlight Artemis, US Space Leadership During Annual Address

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will discuss the agency’s goals for the benefit of humanity during the annual State of NASA address on Monday, March 11. The event will coincide with the release of the Biden-Harris Administration’s fiscal year 2025 budget proposal. The event will air live at 1 p.m. EDT on NASA+, NASA Television, the […]
Posted March 8, 2024
Gateway Space Station
Artemis
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Artemis Campaign Development Division
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
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Missions

From childhood stargazing to building a lunar space station  

Even growing up in the heart of Washington, D.C., stargazer Oliver Ortiz felt a connection to space from a young age and always wondered what was beyond the city lights. Now a seasoned engineer with Northrop Grumman, he is contributing to a new era of space exploration with Gateway, humanity’s first space station in lunar […]
Posted November 16, 2023
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