Space Technology Mission Directorate

General
Aeronautics Research
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Glenn Research Center
Materials Science
NASA Centers & Facilities
Space Technology Mission Directorate
A material recently discovered and tested at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland could help astronauts pack lighter for future missions to the Moon.
Posted May 22, 2026
Technology
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA released the 2026 Civil Space Shortfall Ranking list on Wednesday, which integrates more than 400 responses from stakeholders including industry organizations, government agencies, and academia. Shortfalls refer to technology areas requiring further development to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs.
Posted May 20, 2026
Cryogenic Fluid Management (CFM)
Kennedy Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology Demonstration Missions Program
NASA is collaborating with Eta Space of Rockledge, Florida, on an in‑orbit technology demonstration to advance a key capability for future deep space missions.
Posted May 14, 2026
Technology
Game Changing Development Program
High-Tech Computing
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology for Space Travel
Technology Transfer
NASA’s High Performance Spaceflight Computing project aims to dramatically improve the computing power of spacecraft. Missions need processors that can withstand the harsh space environment, so they use chips developed years ago that are hardy and reliable.
Posted May 12, 2026
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Game Changing Development Program
High-Tech Computing
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Langley Research Center
Technology
Technology for Space Travel
For decades, NASA has advanced on-board spacecraft computer processors that coordinate and execute the functions needed to support mission success. Space computing originated in the 1960s with the Apollo Guidance Computers, which were pivotal for guidance, navigation, and control computations during NASA’s first Moon missions.
Posted May 8, 2026
General
Artemis
Game Changing Development Program
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
Technology for Living in Space
Technology Research
With a small blue crane, four researchers hoist a cylindrical fuel cell, which looks like a stack of flattened silver and gold soda cans bundled together, into the air and lower it into a rectangular cart on wheels. A tangle of tubes and wires spiral away from the system, where nearly 270 sensors and 1,000 […]
Posted May 8, 2026
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Technology
Through NASA, a university-designed small spacecraft is paving the way to studying particles, known as neutrinos, that move through the universe at near-light speeds. The Solar Neutrino Astro-Particle PhYsics CubeSat, known as SNAPPY, launched at 12 a.m.
Posted May 7, 2026
Technology
Ames Research Center
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Flight Opportunities Program
Game Changing Development Program
Langley Research Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
To support long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA and industry are developing technologies that can extract resources such as hydrogen and helium-3 from lunar soil, known as regolith.
Posted May 4, 2026
Technology Demonstration
Glenn Research Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Nuclear Propulsion (SNP)
Space Technology Mission Directorate
A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to the test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. On Feb. 24, for the first time in years and at power levels exceeding any previous test in the United States, a team fired up […]
Posted April 28, 2026
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