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NASA Invites Stakeholders to STMD’s LIFT-1 Industry Forum
NASA is hosting a virtual industry forum on Nov. 13, 2023, to introduce the agency’s Lunar Infrastructure Foundational Technologies (LIFT-1) demonstration Request…

NASA’s Oxygen-Generating Experiment MOXIE Completes Mars Mission
Riding with the Perseverance rover, the instrument has proved to be a viable technology for astronauts on Mars to produce…

NASA Gathering Tools to Assess Damage, Verify Parts Made in Space
Micrometeorite impacts in lunar samples hold keys to safer habitats and protective gear for future Moon and Mars explorers.

NASA Turns to AI to Design Mission Hardware
Hardware designed by AI may resemble alien bones, but they weigh less, tolerate more stress, and require a fraction of…

NASA Developing AI to Steer Using Landmarks – On the Moon
A NASA engineer is teaching a machine to use features on the Moon’s horizon to navigate across the lunar surface.

Top Teams Advance in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge
NASA has named 15 teams moving on to compete in the semifinal level of its Break the Ice Lunar Challenge.

NASA Engineer Develops Tiny, High-Powered Laser to Find Water on the Moon
Finding water on the Moon could be easier with a Goddard technology that uses an effect called quantum tunneling to…

NASA Awards Accelerate Small Business Tech for Earth and Space
NASA has awarded six U.S. small businesses funding to continue work on technologies poised to make a significant impact in…

NASA Opens Second Phase of $3.5 Million Lunar Excavation Competition
NASA launched the second phase of its Break the Ice Lunar Challenge to advance technology that is – quite literally…