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Glenn Research Center
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
Opportunities to Contribute to NASA Missions & Get Involved
Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS)
Technology
Technology for Space Travel
NASA has named nine finalists out of the 45 semifinalist student essays in the Power to Explore Challenge, a national writing competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes.
Posted April 23, 2025
Glenn Research Center
Opportunities to Contribute to NASA Missions & Get Involved
Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS)
Technology
Technology for Space Travel
NASA has selected the 45 semifinalists of the Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes.
Posted March 21, 2025
Game Changing Development Program
Langley Research Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
This compressed, resolution-limited gif shows the view of lunar sunset from one of the six Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 cameras on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander, which operated on the Moon’s surface for a little more than 14 days and stopped, as anticipated, a few hours into lunar night. SCALPSS was taking […]
Posted March 19, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Blue Ghost (lander)
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA Headquarters
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
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
General
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Langley Research Center
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
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
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Spinoffs
Technology
Technology Transfer
Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
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
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Goddard Space Flight Center
Lunar Trailblazer
Missions
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
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
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
Artemis
Artemis 4
Earth's Moon
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Gateway Program
Gateway Space Station
Glenn Research Center
Humans in Space
Technology
Technology for Space Travel
Assembly is underway for Gateway's Power and Propulsion Element, the module that will power the lunar space station's journey to and around the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign.
Posted February 25, 2025
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