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Space Technology Mission Directorate

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TTechnology
Varda Space Industries W-5 capsule blazing through Earth’s atmosphere during re-entry, safeguarded by its advanced C-PICA heat shield technology.
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NASA Heat Shield Technology Enables Space Industry Growth

  • January 29, 2026
Using cutting-edge material licensed from NASA, a protective heat shield manufactured in-house by Varda Space Industries for the…
SScience
Spinoff 2026 marks the publication's 50th year documenting commercial uses of NASA technology. This edition’s cover features Astronaut Alan Bean holding an environmental sample container filled with lunar soil during the Apollo 12 mission of November 1969. Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., who took this picture, is reflected in Bean’s helmet visor.
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NASA Technology Brings Golden Age of Exploration to Earth

  • January 26, 2026
As NASA fosters technologies needed to live and work farther away from home than ever before, the agency’s…
SScience
This illustration of Moon to Mars infrastructure shows astronauts living and working on the surface of Mars. NASA’s Moon to Mars Objectives establish an objectives-based approach to the agency's human deep space exploration efforts; NASA’s Moon to Mars Architecture approach distills the objectives into operational capabilities and elements.
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Food System Design Challenge

  • January 13, 2026
NASA is getting ready to send four astronauts around the Moon with Artemis II, laying the foundation for…
SScience
NASA’s Two-in-One Satellite Propulsion Demo Begins In-Space Test
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NASA’s Two-in-One Satellite Propulsion Demo Begins In-Space Test

  • December 17, 2025
NASA is working with commercial partners to create high-performing, reliable propulsion systems that will help small spacecraft safely…
SScience
NASA Ignites New Golden Age of Exploration, Innovation in 2025
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NASA Ignites New Golden Age of Exploration, Innovation in 2025

  • December 16, 2025
With a second Trump Administration at the helm in 2025, NASA marked significant progress toward the Artemis II…
SSpace
a golden satellite with solar arrays extended, with the limb of Earth in the background
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NASA’s Fly Foundational Robots Demo to Bolster In-Space Infrastructure

  • December 3, 2025
NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the…
SSpace
A person wearing glasses and a dark polo shirt stands indoors holding an open laptop in one hand. In front of him is a piece of large mechanical equipment resembling a planetary surface rover, with white structural arms and panels covered in gold foil. Behind him, another person is carrying a large, flat, rectangular object. The background shows industrial equipment and a large American flag hanging on the wall.
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Break the Ice Winner Starpath Tests Robot at NASA Marshall Thermal Vacuum Chamber

  • September 27, 2025
By Savannah Bullard One year after winning second place in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, members of…
SScience
One man manages engine speed with a hand-held controller, while another firmly holds the subscale aircraft in place.
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NASA Lab Builds New Aircraft to Support Complex Flight Research

  • September 24, 2025
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is building a new subscale aircraft to support increasingly complex…
CComputing
NASA to Test Solution for Radiation-Tolerant Computing in Space
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NASA to Test Solution for Radiation-Tolerant Computing in Space

  • September 7, 2025
Onboard computers are critical to space exploration, aiding nearly every spacecraft function from propulsion and navigation systems to…
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