Flight Opportunities Program

Space Technology Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
Flight Opportunities Program
Technology
Technology Transfer
Using cutting-edge material licensed from NASA, a protective heat shield manufactured in-house by Varda Space Industries for the first time enabled one of its capsules to blaze through Earth’s atmosphere on Thursday, marking a significant milestone for the agency and America’s space industry.
Posted January 29, 2026
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Flight Opportunities Program
Johnson Space Center
Technology
Technology for Space Travel
Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and soft landings is a critical area of space research and development, particularly for future crewed missions.
Posted May 29, 2025
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Flight Opportunities Program
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Technology
One of the keys to a sustainable human presence on distant worlds is using local, or in-situ, resources which includes building materials for infrastructure such as habitats, radiation shielding, roads, and rocket launch and landing pads.
Posted May 13, 2025
Ames Research Center
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Artemis
Flight Opportunities Program
Game Changing Development Program
Glenn Research Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
The old saying — “Practice makes perfect!” — applies to the Moon too. On Tuesday, NASA gave 17 technologies, instruments, and experiments the chance to practice being on the Moon… without actually going there. Instead, it was a flight test aboard a vehicle adapted to simulate lunar gravity for approximately two minutes. The test began […]
Posted February 4, 2025
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advanced Air Mobility
Aeronautics
C-20A
DC-8
Earth Science
ER-2
Flight Opportunities Program
Quesst (X-59)
Sustainable Flight Demonstrator
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is preparing today for tomorrow’s mission. Supersonic flight, next generation aircraft, advanced air mobility, climate changes, human exploration of space, and the next innovation are just some of the topics our researchers, engineers, and mission support teams focused on in 2024.
Posted December 20, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Flight Opportunities Program
Game Changing Development Program
During the flight test with Blue Origin, seven technologies developed by NASA’s Game Changing Development (GCD) program will study regolith mechanics and lunar dust transport in a simulated lunar gravity environment.
Posted December 13, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
Flight Opportunities Program
Game Changing Development Program
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Psyche Mission
Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Technology
Technology Demonstration Missions Program
One year ago today, the future of space communications arrived at Earth as a beam of light from a NASA spacecraft nearly 10 million miles away. That’s 40 times farther than our Moon. That’s like using a laser pointer to track a moving dime from a mile away. That’s pretty precise. That laser — transmitted […]
Posted November 14, 2024
Ames Research Center
Airborne Science
Earth Science Division
Flight Opportunities Program
NASA is participating in a collaborative effort to use high-altitude balloons to improve real-time communications among firefighters battling wildland fires.   The rugged and often remote locations where wildland fires burn mean cell phone service is often limited, making communication between firefighters and command posts difficult.
Posted November 14, 2024
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