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Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Technology
Through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, NASA nurtures visionary yet credible concepts that could one day “change the possible” in aerospace, while engaging America’s innovators and entrepreneurs as partners in the journey.   These concepts span various disciplines and aim to advance capabilities such as finding resources on di
Posted June 23, 2025
Science-enabling Technology
Earth
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Earth's Moon
General
Goddard Space Flight Center
Langley Research Center
Lunar Science
Science Instruments
Science Mission Directorate
Small Satellite Missions
Technology
NASA will soon launch a one-of-a-kind instrument, called Arcstone, to improve the quality of data from Earth-viewing sensors in orbit. In this technology demonstration, the mission will measure sunlight reflected from the Moon— a technique called lunar calibration.
Posted June 21, 2025
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Goddard Space Flight Center
Technology
The Universe
The core portion of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully completed vibration testing, ensuring it will withstand the extreme shaking experienced during launch. Passing this key milestone brings Roman one step closer to helping answer essential questions about the role of dark energy and other cosmic mysteries.
Posted June 4, 2025
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Flight Opportunities Program
Johnson Space Center
Technology
Technology for Space Travel
Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and soft landings is a critical area of space research and development, particularly for future crewed missions.
Posted May 29, 2025
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Flight Opportunities Program
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Technology
One of the keys to a sustainable human presence on distant worlds is using local, or in-situ, resources which includes building materials for infrastructure such as habitats, radiation shielding, roads, and rocket launch and landing pads.
Posted May 13, 2025
Technology
Technology Transfer
Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
When most people think of NASA, they picture rockets, astronauts, and the Moon. But behind the scenes, a group of inventors is quietly rewriting the rules of what’s possible — on Earth, in orbit, and beyond.
Posted May 9, 2025
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Goddard Space Flight Center
Technology
One half of NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just passed a lengthy test to ensure it will function properly in the space environment. “This milestone tees us up to attach the flight solar array sun shield to the outer barrel assembly, and deployable aperture cover, which we’ll begin this month,” said Jack […]
Posted May 7, 2025
Get Involved
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 chosen three winners out of nine finalists in the fourth annual Power to Explore Challenge, a national writing competition designed to teach K-12 students about the enabling power of radioisotopes for space exploration.
Posted May 7, 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
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Science for Everyone
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
Today is the 100th day of the Trump-Vance Administration after being inaugurated on Jan. 20. In his inaugural address, President Trump laid out a bold and ambitious vision for NASA’s future throughout his second term, saying, “We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on […]
Posted April 29, 2025
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