Research and Technology Mission Directorate

Human Landing System Program
Artemis
Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI)
CoECI News
Humans in Space
Marshall Space Flight Center
Prizes, Challenges, & Crowdsourcing News
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Research and Technology Mission Directorate
NASA’s 2027 Human Lander Challenge is seeking ideas from college and university students to help address one of the most critical needs for sustained lunar exploration: reliable communications.
Posted September 30, 2026
Learning Resources
For Colleges & Universities
Prizes, Challenges, & Crowdsourcing News
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Research and Technology Mission Directorate
Following a successful inaugural year of ingenuity and career building, NASA ORBIT (Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology) has officially returned for a second season to bring university and college student innovation to the forefront of Earth technology development and deep-space exploration.
Posted September 29, 2026
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Aeronautics
Earth Science Division
Flight Innovation
NASA Aircraft
Research and Technology Mission Directorate
On Sept. 30, 1946, five National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) engineers arrived at Muroc Army Airfield in California’s high desert to achieve supersonic flight for the first time. In less than two years, NACA flew the X-1 aircraft faster than the speed of sound, marking an important milestone in aviation history. Fast forward 80 […]
Posted September 28, 2026
Research and Technology Mission Directorate
CubeSats
Marshall Space Flight Center
Spacecraft propulsion traditionally relies on volatile fuels and separate, bulky systems for different types of maneuvering in space. NASA is working to change that paradigm.
Posted September 25, 2026
Centennial Challenges
Centennial Challenges News
Marshall Space Flight Center
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Research and Technology Mission Directorate
NASA announced the winners of the Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table Thursday, with the top $300,000 prize being awarded to Chinyere Ukeje of Philadelphia, Pa. for the Adaptive Nourishment Infrastructure (ANI) food system concept.
Posted September 24, 2026
Airspace Operations and Safety Program
Aeronautics
Air Traffic Management and Safety
Air Traffic Solutions
Ames Research Center
Research and Technology Mission Directorate
NASA’s researchers know that when you settle into your seat on a commercial flight, you expect a smooth takeoff, views over the clouds, a steady descent, and hopefully an early arrival at your destination. But when your flight gets delayed on the tarmac instead of lifting off, or it ends up in a holding pattern […]
Posted September 24, 2026
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
General
Glenn Research Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
Research and Technology Mission Directorate
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS)
NASA celebrated the full restoration of its Guam Remote Station with a ribbon-cutting on Sept. 10, closing out more than three years of recovery after Super Typhoon Mawar devastated the site in 2023. Engineers from across the agency completed the final and most complex step of the rebuild on July 1, when they returned the […]
Posted September 16, 2026
Deep Space Network
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Research and Technology Mission Directorate
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in California is marking the addition of a brand new 34-meter-wide (114-foot-wide) radio frequency antenna to the agency’s deep space communications and navigation system.
Posted August 26, 2026
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Flight Innovation
Research and Technology Mission Directorate
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
University Innovation
University Leadership Initiative
University Student Research Challenge
NASA has selected four university teams to help the agency transform the future of aviation through projects ranging from high-supersonic propulsion systems to low-noise routes for small aircraft flying through cities.
Posted August 20, 2026
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