Space Technology Mission Directorate

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

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Johnson Space Center

Kennedy Space Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

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Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

NASA Science Continues After Firefly’s First Moon Mission Concludes

After landing on the Moon with NASA science and technology demonstrations March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 concluded its mission March 16. Analysis of data returned to Earth from the NASA instruments continues, benefitting future lunar missions.

Posted March 18, 2025

Ames Research Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Directorates

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA, USGS, Industry Explore Off-World Resource Development

NASA and the U.S.

Posted March 18, 2025

General

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Langley Research Center

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture First-of-its-Kind Moon Landing Footage

A team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, supported by Marshall Space Flight Center IN Huntsville, Alabama, has captured first-of-its-kind imagery of a lunar lander’s engine plumes interacting with the Moon’s surface, a key piece of data as trips to the Moon increase in the coming years under the agency’s Artemis campaign.

Posted March 13, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Earth's Moon

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Receives Some Data Before Intuitive Machines Ends Lunar Mission

Shortly after touching down inside a crater on the Moon, carrying NASA technology and science on its IM-2 mission, Intuitive Machines collected some data for the agency before calling an early end of mission at 12:15 a.m. CST Friday. As part of the company’s second Moon delivery for NASA under the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar […]

Posted March 7, 2025

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Spinoffs

Technology

Technology Transfer

Technology Transfer & Spinoffs

What is a NASA Spinoff? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 53

What is a NASA Spinoff? Well, to answer that question, we’re going to have to go all the way back to 1958, back to the legislation that originally created the space agency, NASA. So in that legislation, there’s some forward-looking language that says, “Make sure that all the cool stuff you develop for space doesn’t […]

Posted March 5, 2025

Ames Research Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

Small Spacecraft Technology Program

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Venus

NASA Installs Heat Shield on First Private Spacecraft Bound for Venus

Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, Bohdan Wesely, right, and Eli Hiss, left, complete a fit check of the two halves of a space capsule that will study the clouds of Venus for signs of life. Led by Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California, and their partners at the Massachusetts Institute […]

Posted February 27, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Goddard Space Flight Center

Lunar Trailblazer

Missions

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

Liftoff! NASA Tech, Science En Route to Moon with Intuitive Machines

The next set of NASA science and technology demonstrations is on its way to the lunar surface, where they will gather data about Earth’s nearest neighbor and help pave the way for American astronauts to explore the Moon and beyond, for the benefit of all. Carrying NASA instruments as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial […]

Posted February 27, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

General

Johnson Space Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

Fourth Launch of NASA Instruments Planned for Near Moon’s South Pole

Sending instruments to the Moon supports a growing lunar economy on and off Earth, and the next flight of NASA science and technology is only days away.

Posted February 26, 2025

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Game Changing Development Program

Kennedy Space Center

Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative

Missions

NASA Headquarters

Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

Science Mission Directorate

Five Facts About NASA’s Moon Bound Technology

NASA is sending revolutionary technologies to the Moon aboard Intuitive Machines’ second lunar delivery as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign to establish a long-term presence on the lunar surface.  As part of this CLPS flight to the Moon, NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate will te

Posted February 25, 2025

Missions

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Science Mission Directorate

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Next Commercial Moon Launch

Carrying NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission is targeted to launch no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 26. The mission will lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s […]

Posted February 21, 2025