Kennedy Space Center

NASA has selected Rocket Lab USA Inc. of Long Beach, California, to launch the agency’s Aspera mission, a SmallSat to study galaxy formation and evolution, providing new insights into how the universe works. The selection is part of NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract.

Posted May 14, 2025

STEM Engagement at NASA

NASA Kennedy Engages STEM Participants

Students from Eau Gallie High School in Melbourne, Florida, visited the Prototype Development Laboratory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, April 28, 2025.

Posted May 9, 2025

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Earth's Moon

Game Changing Development Program

Partner With Us

Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Kennedy Breathes Life into Moon Soil Testing

As NASA works to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, researchers have reached a breakthrough by extracting oxygen at a commercial scale from simulated lunar soil at Swamp Works at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The achievement moves NASA one step closer to its goal of utilizing resources on the Moon and beyond […]

Posted May 5, 2025

Advanced Plant Habitat (APH)

International Space Station (ISS)

Kennedy Space Center

Plant Biology

Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

Science & Research

NASA Harvests Lettuce for Space Station Study

Inside a laboratory in the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a payload implementation team member harvests ‘Outredgeous’ romaine lettuce growing in the Advanced Plant Habitat ground unit on Thursday, April 24, 2025.

Posted May 1, 2025

Johnson Space Center

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Katherine Johnson IV and V Facility

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Langley Research Center

Mars 2020

Perseverance (Rover)

Robotics

Robots, Rovers, and Regolith: NASA Brings Exploration to FIRST Robotics 2025

What does the future of space exploration look like?

Posted April 29, 2025

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

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Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

NASA’s Lunar Drill Technology Passes Tests on the Moon

Editor’s note: This article was updated on April 29, 2025, to correct the amount of data collected during Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission. NASA’s PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1) mission was designed to demonstrate technologies to help scientists better understand lunar resources ahead of crewed Artemis missions to the Moon.

Posted April 29, 2025

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Earth's Moon

Game Changing Development Program

Moons

NASA Directorates

Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Moon Observing Instrument to Get Another Shot at Lunar Ops

A NASA-developed technology that recently proved its capabilities in the harsh environment of space will soon head back to the Moon to search for gases trapped under the lunar surface thanks to a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between NASA and commercial company Magna Petra Corp.

Posted April 28, 2025

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Sustainability at Kennedy Space Center

Animal That Once Lived With Dinosaurs Helps Keep NASA Kennedy In Balance

They’re known as “living fossils”. For over 450 million years, horseshoe crabs have been an ecologically vital part of our planet. They’re one of the few surviving species on Earth dating back to the dinosaurs. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is one of more than 1,500 types […]

Posted April 22, 2025

International Space Station (ISS)

Commercial Resupply

ISS Research

Johnson Space Center

Kennedy Space Center

SpaceX Commercial Resupply

NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 32nd SpaceX Resupply Station Mission

Following the successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 32nd Commercial Resupply Services mission, new scientific experiments and supplies are bound for the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying approximately 6,700 pounds of cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA, lifted off at 4:15 a.m.

Posted April 21, 2025