Space Technology Mission Directorate

Marshall Space Flight Center
Game Changing Development Program
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy (OTPS)
Space Technology Mission Directorate
The widespread commercial adoption of additive manufacturing technologies, commonly known as 3D printing, is no surprise to design engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama whose research created stronger, lighter weight materials and new manufacturing processes to make rocket parts.
Posted August 1, 2024
Game Changing Development Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
The  primary objective of the Composite Cryotank Technologies and Demonstration (CCTD) project is to mature the technology readiness of composite cryogenic propellant tanks at diameters that are suitable for future heavy lift vehicles and other in-space applications.
Posted August 1, 2024
General
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
This spring, NASA published a document overviewing almost 200 technology areas requiring further development to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs – and asked the aerospace community to rate their importance.
Posted July 23, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Tuesday Dr. Kurt Vogel, associate administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), is retiring from the agency.
Posted July 16, 2024
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Flight Opportunities Program
Learning Resources
Prizes, Challenges & Crowdsourcing News
SmallSats Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA’s public competitions can catalyze big changes – not just for the agency but also for participants. Bronco Space, the CubeSat laboratory at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California, matured more than just space technology as a result of winning funds from NASA’s TechLeap Prize competition.
Posted June 28, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Ames Research Center
Glenn Research Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Langley Research Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Landing rovers and helicopters on Mars is a challenge. It’s an even bigger challenge when you don’t have enough information about how the parachutes are enduring strain during the descent to the surface.
Posted June 27, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Science & Research
As NASA prepares for long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars for the benefit of all, a habitat-growing concept selected Wednesday by the agency could help “grow” homes using fungi for future explorers.
Posted June 26, 2024
Goddard Technology
Goddard Space Flight Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
Technicians armed with advanced measuring equipment, augmented reality headsets, and QR codes virtually checked the fit of some Roman Space Telescope structures before building or moving them through facilities at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Posted June 20, 2024
Game Changing Development Program
Flight Opportunities Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Teams of NASA researchers put their next-generation technologies to the microgravity test in a series of parabolic flights that aim to advance innovations supporting the agency’s space exploration goals.
Posted June 20, 2024
Langley Research Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Out of 14 finalist teams that encompassed collegiate and university representation from across the globe, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University team with their concept, “Project Draupnir,” in the AI-Powered Self-Replicating Probe theme, took home top prize in NASA’s Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC
Posted June 13, 2024
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