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NASA Fosters Innovative, Far-Out Tech for the Future of Aerospace
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Through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, NASA nurtures visionary yet credible concepts that could one day “change the…

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Get to Know Clayton Turner, Leading NASA’s Space Technology
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Since assuming the role in December 2024, Clayton Turner has served as the associate administrator of the Space Technology Mission…

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NASA Awards Third Crowdsourcing Contract Iteration
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Editor’s note: This release was updated June 6, 2025, to correct the name of one of the awardees. NASA continues…

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NASA Kennedy Digs Latest Robot Test
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NASA’s RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) manipulates a simulant of regolith – the fragmental material found on the…

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NASA Tests New Ways to Stick the Landing in Challenging Terrain
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Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and soft landings is…

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NASA Langley Uses Height, Gravity to Test Long, Flexible Booms
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Researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have developed a technique to test long, flexible, composite booms for…

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Top Prize Awarded in Lunar Autonomy Challenge to Virtually Map Moon’s Surface
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NASA named Stanford University of California winner of the Lunar Autonomy Challenge, a six-month competition for U.S. college and university…

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NASA Enables Construction Technology for Moon and Mars Exploration
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One of the keys to a sustainable human presence on distant worlds is using local, or in-situ, resources which includes…

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NASA Kennedy Breathes Life into Moon Soil Testing
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As NASA works to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, researchers have reached a breakthrough by extracting oxygen at…

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