Missions

Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
For the second time, Intuitive Machines will launch a lunar lander to deliver NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations to the Moon for the benefit of all.
Posted January 24, 2025
Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
Game Changing Development Program
Kennedy Space Center
Langley Research Center
Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium
Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative
NASA Headquarters
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA Space Technology has big travel plans for 2025, starting with a trip to the near side of the Moon! Among ten groundbreaking NASA science and technology demonstrations, two technologies are on a ride to survey lunar regolith – also known as “Moon dust” – to better understand surface interactions with incoming lander spacecraft and […]
Posted January 24, 2025
Johnson Space Center
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Science & Research
Insights into metal alloy solidification Researchers report details of phase and structure in the solidification of metal alloys on the International Space Station, including formation of microstructures.
Posted January 21, 2025
Johnson Space Center
Earth
Earth Science
Extreme Weather Events
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Science & Research
Measurements from space support wildfire risk predictions Researchers demonstrated that data from the International Space Station’s ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) instrument played a significant role in the ability of machine learning algorithms to predict wildfire susceptibility.
Posted January 13, 2025
Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Marshall Space Flight Center
Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated Jan. 13, 2025, to reflect the correct affiliation for Maria Banks, CLPS project scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Posted January 10, 2025
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Missions
In December 2024, five CubeSats deployed into Earth’s orbit from the International Space Station. Among them was LignoSat, a wooden satellite from JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) that investigates the use of wood in space. Findings could offer a more sustainable alternative to conventional satellites.
Posted January 7, 2025
Missions
Mars Sample Return (MSR)
To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity, NASA announced Tuesday a new approach to its Mars Sample Return Program.
Posted January 7, 2025
NASA Centers & Facilities
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Johnson Space Center
Missions
NASA has selected Adam Schlesinger as manager for CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services). Schlesinger previously served as the Gateway Program habitation and logistics outpost project lead engineer at Johnson Space Center.
Posted January 6, 2025
Johnson Space Center
Astronauts
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
A method for evaluating thermophysical properties of metal alloys Simulation of the solidification of metal alloys, a key step in certain industrial processes, requires reliable data on their thermophysical properties such as surface tension and viscosity.
Posted December 20, 2024
Asteroids
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
General
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
The Solar System
NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed.  A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge repurposed Webb’s observations of a distant star to reveal a population of small asteroids — smaller than astronomers had ever detected orbiting
Posted December 20, 2024
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