Growing the Lunar Economy
NASA is returning America to the Moon through its Artemis missions. American innovation is leading the way, and the future at the Moon holds promise for a robust lunar marketplace. NASA’s strategy stimulates the commercial space industry, which drives new ideas, brings down costs, and grows the business opportunities that can foster a lunar economy and serve other customers for the benefit of humanity.
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Commercial Lunar Payload Services
Through NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, the agency is working with American companies to deliver scientific, exploration, and technology payloads to the Moon’s surface and lunar orbit.
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Spacesuits
NASA has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to advance spacewalking capabilities in low-Earth orbit and at the Moon. By buying services that leverage NASA's expertise along with commercial innovation, government investments help accelerate industry as commercial space markets in low-Earth orbit and beyond rapidly mature.
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NASA Makes Progress with New Lunar Terrain Vehicle Moon Rover Services
As astronauts explore the South Pole region of the Moon during Artemis missions, they will be able to go farther…
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Public-Private Partnerships
NextSTEP seeks commercial development of new capabilities for human missions in deep space.
A key component of the NextSTEP partnership model is that it provides an opportunity for NASA and industry to partner to develop capabilities that meet NASA human space exploration objectives while also supporting industry commercialization plans in habitation systems, surface resources, trash compacting system, space communications, and more.
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Advancing Capabilities
Researchers, Small Businesses to Advance New Tech with NASA Awards
NASA, Small Business, Advance Autonomous Metal 3D Printing in Space
NASA Tipping Point Partnership with Blue Origin to Test Precision Lunar Landing Technologies
NASA Small Business, Tipping Point Contracts Advance Small Moon Rover
One Giant Leap for Lunar Landing Navigation
NASA Selects Blue Origin as Second Artemis Lunar Lander Provider
To develop a human landing system for the agency’s Artemis V mission to the Moon, NASA has selected Blue Origin…
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Deep Space Logistics
NASA is building the commercial supply chain in deep space by procuring services for transporting cargo, equipment, and consumables to enable exploration of the Moon and Mars.
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Featured Updates
NASA Selects 12 Companies to Collaborate on Key Technology Development
NASA has selected 16 companies to advance capabilities and technologies related to NASA's Moon to Mars Objectives. The cadre of U.S. industry-led teams will test a new lunar rover tire design, develop a robotically assembled power system, build an electrically actuated
NASA Selects Companies to Collect Lunar Resources
NASA has selected four companies to collect a small amount of Moon “dirt” or rocks from any location on the lunar surface, provide imagery to NASA of the collection and the collected material, along with data that identifies the collection location, and conduct an “in-place” transfer of ownership of the lunar regolith or rocks to NASA.
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