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NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Three Teams at Deep Space Food Finale

August 19, 2024

Jessica Taveau

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. The competitors’ technologies address NASA’s need for sustainable food…
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NASA Invites Media, Public to Attend Deep Space Food Challenge Finale

August 2, 2024

Jessica Taveau

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…
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NASA Additive Manufacturing Project Shapes Future for Agency, Industry Rocket Makers

August 1, 2024

Beth Ridgeway

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. NASA’s RAMPT (Rapid Analysis and Manufacturing Propulsion Technology) project is on the…
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NASA Releases First Integrated Ranking of Civil Space Challenges

July 23, 2024

Anyah Dembling

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. The goal was to better integrate the community’s most pervasive technical challenges, or shortfalls, to help guide NASA’s space technology development and…
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NASA Announces Leadership Changes

July 16, 2024

Tiernan P. Doyle

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Tuesday Dr. Kurt Vogel, associate administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), is retiring from the agency. NASA Langley Research Center Director Clayton Turner will become the acting associate administrator for STMD, and NASA Glenn Research Center Deputy Director Dawn Schaible will become acting Langley center director. The changes…
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NASA Opportunities Fuel Growth and Entrepreneurship for Bronco Space Club Students

June 28, 2024

Bailey G. Light

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. It grew from its roots in a broom…
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NASA Parachute Sensor Testing Could Make EPIC Mars Landings

June 27, 2024

Dede Dinius

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. Researchers at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, are experimenting with readily available, highly elastic sensors that can be fixed…
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NASA Advances Research to Grow Habitats in Space from Fungi

June 26, 2024

Tiernan P. Doyle

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. A team of researchers at NASA Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley will receive new funding under the NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts…
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Augmented Reality Speeds Spacecraft Construction at NASA Goddard

June 20, 2024

Karl B. Hille

Technicians armed with advanced measuring equipment, augmented reality headsets, and QR codes virtually checked the fit of some Roman Space Telescope structures before building or moving them through facilities at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “We’ve been able to place sensors, mounting interfaces, and other spacecraft hardware in 3D space faster and…
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Next Generation NASA Technologies Tested in Flight

June 20, 2024

Marina Guerges

Teams of NASA researchers put their next-generation technologies to the microgravity test in a series of parabolic flights that aim to advance innovations supporting the agency’s space exploration goals.
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NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Three Teams at Deep Space Food Finale

NASA Invites Media, Public to Attend Deep Space Food Challenge Finale

NASA Additive Manufacturing Project Shapes Future for Agency, Industry Rocket Makers

NASA Releases First Integrated Ranking of Civil Space Challenges

NASA Announces Leadership Changes

NASA Opportunities Fuel Growth and Entrepreneurship for Bronco Space Club Students

NASA Parachute Sensor Testing Could Make EPIC Mars Landings

NASA Advances Research to Grow Habitats in Space from Fungi

Augmented Reality Speeds Spacecraft Construction at NASA Goddard

Next Generation NASA Technologies Tested in Flight

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