Technologies for Space TravelNASA is advancing the technologies that will enable the future of space travel, from next-generation propulsion and solar sailing to precision landing, in-space refueling, and lunar surface operations.Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, conduct a successful, 251-second hot fire test of a full-scale...Making the stuff of science fiction into reality, NASA engineers are testing solar sails-a unique propulsion technology that one day...SPLICE Project Manager Ron Sostaric checks out the system (including the descent and landing computer, navigation doppler lidar, terrain relative...A run of the plume-surface interaction testing with the ethane nozzle firing into the simulated lunar dirt.NASA’s SPLICE descent and landing computer (foreground) and navigation Doppler lidar engineering test unit (background) undergo preparations for a suborbital...Andrew Kennett (left) watches as Dominic Aldi (right) uses liquid nitrogen to cool a motor integrated bulk metallic glass gearbox...Engineers in the Small Multi-Purpose Research Facility, part of the Creek Road Cryogenic Complex at NASA’s Glenn Research CenterShortly after Artemis II splashdown on April 10, 2026, U.S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery of the Orion spacecraft’s heat...
