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NASA Glenn Earns R&D 100 Award
R&D Magazine and a panel of experts have chosen NASA’s Glenn Research Center’s GRX-810: A 3D Printable Alloy Designed for…

NASA Sets Table for Safe Air Taxi Flights
Editor’s Note: Edited to reflect published technical paper link. Tabletop exercises allow researchers to explore options and test scenarios in…

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 Tests Advanced Air Mobility Automation Concepts with Sikorsky and DARPA
New forms of highly automated Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) aircraft, such as electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, could…

NASA-Supported Optical Fiber Manufacturing Arrives at Space Station
Following its launch on July 14, 2022, two NASA-supported optical fiber manufacturing payloads arrived at the International Space Station on…

NASA Selects Six University Teams to Develop Technologies to Enhance Artemis Missions
NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation selected six university teams to develop advanced and innovative design ideas that will…

NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign Adds New Partners
NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign has signed agreements with four new organizations to exchange information related to the development and testing …

NASA, Small Business, Advance Autonomous Metal 3D Printing in Space
Researchers are one step closer to autonomously 3D printing metals in space. Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication, or EBF3, uses an…

NASA, Partners Test 3D Printed Rocket Pad Designed by Artemis Generation Students
A team of students from colleges and universities across the United States – members of the Artemis Generation – tested…