General

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Ten NASA Science, Tech Instruments Flying to Moon on Firefly Lander

As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, the agency is preparing to fly ten instruments aboard Firefly Aerospace’s first delivery to the Moon.

Posted January 14, 2025

CubeSat Launch Initiative

CubeSats

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Kennedy Space Center

Launch Services Program

Small Satellite Missions

University Leadership Initiative

NASA, Partners Open Applications for CubeSat Summer Program

NASA is collaborating with the U.S. Air Force and U.S.

Posted January 13, 2025

General

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1

Posted January 13, 2025

Langley Research Center

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NASA Centers & Facilities

Space Nuclear Propulsion (SNP)

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Nuclear Electric Propulsion Technology Could Make Missions to Mars Faster

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of heart. We’re not talking days, weeks, or months. But there are technologies that could help transport a crew on that round-trip journey in a relatively quick two years. One option NASA is exploring is nuclear electric propulsion, which employs a nuclear reactor […]

Posted January 10, 2025

Johnson Space Center

General

35 Years Ago: STS-32 Returns the Long Duration Exposure Facility

On Jan. 9, 1990, space shuttle Columbia took off on its ninth flight, STS-32, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.

Posted January 9, 2025

Johnson Space Center

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Johnson's Mission Control Center

Houston, We Have the Holiday Cookies

Supporting the International Space Station is an around-the-clock responsibility for NASA and its international partners. This means there is always a team of flight operations and payload personnel working with the orbiting laboratory’s crew – including overnight, on weekends, and during the holidays.

Posted January 8, 2025

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Johnson Space Center

415 Years Ago: Astronomer Galileo Discovers Jupiter’s Moons

On Jan. 7, 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei peered through his newly improved 20-power homemade telescope at the planet Jupiter. He noticed three other points of light near the planet, at first believing them to be distant stars. Observing them over several nights, he noted that they appeared to move in the wrong direction with […]

Posted January 8, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Digital Transformation (DT)

General

NASA’s AI Use Cases: Advancing Space Exploration with Responsibility

NASA's 2024 AI Use Case inventory highlights the agency’s commitment to integrating artificial intelligence in its space missions and operations.

Posted January 7, 2025

Environmental Management Division (EMD)

General

Soil Remediation at White Sands Test Facility

NASA White Sands Test Facility Las Cruces, New Mexico Soil Remediation at the 600 Area Off-Site Pile Origins of the 600 Area Off-Site Pile The NASA White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) is crucial for supporting space exploration and technology development.

Posted January 6, 2025

General

NASA Engineering and Safety Center

Collaboration Is Key to A Strong Materials Discipline

NASA has a strong need for advanced materials and processes (M&P) across the realms of robotic- and crewed-spaceflight, as well as aeronautics, particularly when one acknowledges that all craft must be made of something. To meet that need, the materials discipline relies on collaboration—both between centers and across disciplines.

Posted December 24, 2024