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Kennedy Space Center
STEM Engagement at NASA
Students from Eau Gallie High School in Melbourne, Florida, visited the Prototype Development Laboratory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, April 28, 2025.
Posted May 9, 2025
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Earth's Moon
Game Changing Development Program
Partner With Us
Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
As NASA works to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, researchers have reached a breakthrough by extracting oxygen at a commercial scale from simulated lunar soil at Swamp Works at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The achievement moves NASA one step closer to its goal of utilizing resources on the Moon and beyond […]
Posted May 5, 2025
Advanced Plant Habitat (APH)
International Space Station (ISS)
Kennedy Space Center
Plant Biology
Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center
Science & Research
Inside a laboratory in the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a payload implementation team member harvests ‘Outredgeous’ romaine lettuce growing in the Advanced Plant Habitat ground unit on Thursday, April 24, 2025.
Posted May 1, 2025
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Kennedy Space Center
Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
Editor’s note: This article was updated on April 29, 2025, to correct the amount of data collected during Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission. NASA’s PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1) mission was designed to demonstrate technologies to help scientists better understand lunar resources ahead of crewed Artemis missions to the Moon.
Posted April 29, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
Earth's Moon
Game Changing Development Program
Moons
NASA Directorates
Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
A NASA-developed technology that recently proved its capabilities in the harsh environment of space will soon head back to the Moon to search for gases trapped under the lunar surface thanks to a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between NASA and commercial company Magna Petra Corp.
Posted April 28, 2025
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Sustainability at Kennedy Space Center
They’re known as “living fossils”. For over 450 million years, horseshoe crabs have been an ecologically vital part of our planet. They’re one of the few surviving species on Earth dating back to the dinosaurs. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is one of more than 1,500 types […]
Posted April 22, 2025
International Space Station (ISS)
Commercial Resupply
ISS Research
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
SpaceX Commercial Resupply
Following the successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 32nd Commercial Resupply Services mission, new scientific experiments and supplies are bound for the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying approximately 6,700 pounds of cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA, lifted off at 4:15 a.m.
Posted April 21, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
A scrub jay perches on a branch near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 22, 2020. Kennedy shares space with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, which is home to more than 65 amphibian and reptile, 25 mammal, 117 fish, and 330 bird species. At the time this […]
Posted April 17, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
Commercial Resupply
Get Involved
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
SpaceX Commercial Resupply
Virtual Guest Program
NASA invites the public to participate in virtual activities ahead of the launch of SpaceX’s 32nd commercial resupply services mission for the agency. NASA and SpaceX are targeting launch at 4:15 a.m. EDT Monday, April 21, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In addition to food, supplies, and equipment for […]
Posted April 16, 2025
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