Space Technology Mission Directorate

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Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA is seeking input from American companies for the operation and use of a system of free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station as the agency continues to foster scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit for the benefit of all.
Posted August 27, 2024
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Centennial Challenges
For Colleges & Universities
Learning Resources
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA has awarded a total of $1.25 million to three U.S. teams in the third and final round of the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge. The teams delivered novel food production technologies that could provide long-duration human space exploration missions with safe, nutritious, and tasty food.
Posted August 19, 2024
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Centennial Challenges
Centennial Challenges News
Earth's Moon
Mars
Marshall Space Flight Center
Prizes, Challenges & Crowdsourcing News
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA invites the media and public to explore the nexus of space and food innovation at the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge symposium and winners’ announcement at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, Aug. 16.  In 2019, NASA and the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) started the Deep Space Food […]
Posted August 2, 2024
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
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