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STMD

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Space Technology Mission Directorate - a catalyst for creating of technologies and innovation.

NASA Tech Transfer Portal

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Bringing technology from NASA back down to Earth!

Space Tech Roadmaps

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Pathways to advance the nation's current capabilities in space.

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NASA City

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Learn how you use NASA technology every day!

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Technology Trends and NASA: To the Moon and Back

On July 20, 1969, at least 600 million people watched as Neil Armstrong stepped off Eagle's footpad and onto the moon as he uttered his famous line, ...

Mason Peck

Space Innovation

How science used in space is benefitting us on earth.

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Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Creates Space Technology Mission Directorate

The creation of technologies and innovation needed to maintain NASA leadership in space while also benefiting America's economy.

Mason Peck

Meet the Chief

Meet NASA's Chief Technologist, Mason Peck.

Administrator Charles Bolden tours the NASA National Center for Advanced Manufacturing at the Marshall Space Flight Center on Feb. 22, 2013. Credit: NASA

NASA Technology Supports American Manufacturing

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden toured a cutting-edge facility at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where high-tech manufacturing is ...

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Latest Interest

NASA Spinoff 2012 Features New Space Technology →

Look at how NASA's initiatives in aeronautics and space exploration have resulted in commercial technologies with benefits across the economy.
NASA Strategic Space Technology Investment Plan

Prioritizes space technologies essential to the pursuit of NASA's mission and achievement of national goals.
Robonaut 2 Team Receives AIAA Robotics Award

The NASA team behind Robonaut 2 has been awarded the AIAA Space Automation and Robotics Award for 2013.

News Releases

NASA's LAUNCH Program Recognized for Government Innovation

05.01.13 - A NASA program supporting innovative approaches to sustainability challenges has received an Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Investing in Technology to Enable the Future: NASA Creates Space Technology Mission Directorate

02.21.13 - As part of the Obama Administration's recognition of the critical role that space technology and innovation will play in enabling both future space missions and bettering life here on Earth, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has announced the creation of the Space Technology Mission Directorate.
NASA Seeks Big Ideas for Small In-Space Propulsion Systems

02.20.13 - NASA's Space Technology Program is calling for proposals to develop miniaturized electrospray propulsion technologies that could revolutionize small satellite propulsion systems.

Technology and Innovation

Investments in space technology and innovation enable new missions, stimulate the economy, contribute to the nation’s global competitiveness, and inspire America’s next generation of scientists, engineers and astronauts.
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Modeling What’s Cool

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OCT Galleries

William Shatner Promotes NASA Spinoffs

June Lockhart Promotes NASA Spinoffs

Wil Wheaton Promotes NASA Spinoffs

IRVE-3 Launches at Wallops

MISSE–X: Affordable Space Environment Testing

Garver Opens $1.5 Million Robot Challenge

The Ultimate Scavenger Hunt

Alex Trebek Promotes NASA Spinoffs

The Next Generation of Space Communications

Centennial Challenge 2012

NASA's Space Technology Program

Webb Telescope Technology

Will.i.am on NASA Spinoffs

Norah Jones and 'Arthur Christmas' on NASA Spinoffs

Robots Aboard International Space Station

The Next Generation of Space Communications

Masten's Xaero Vehicle

Overview of the OCT

Centennial Challenges

Space Technology Research Grants

Game Changing Development

Technology Demo Missions

Franklin & Edison Small Satellite

Flight Opportunities

Partnership, Innovation & Commercial Space

OCT Town Hall Meeting

Technology's Role in NASA's Future

2009 Centennial Challenges

Swamp Works at KSC

NASA Technology Day 2012

Peck Visits GSFC

NASA Deputy Chief Technologist Jim Adams at KSC

Peck Participates in Atlantic Innovation Summit

NASA Technology Day on the Hill 2012

Chief Technologist Mason Peck Visits NASA GRC

Chief Technologist Mason Peck Visits LaRC

NASA Future Forum Celebrates with John Glenn

NASA Chief Technologist Visits Wallops

IRVE Inflation and Telemetry Section

Braun Visits Bigelow Aerospace

NIAC Image Gallery

GCD January Highlights

Technology Demonstration Missions Bi-Monthly Newsletter

Game On: GCD's Annual Round up

IPP Seed Fund Success