Flight Opportunities
Rapidly demonstrating promising technologies for space exploration, discovery, and the expansion of space commerce through suborbital testing with industry flight providers. Flight Opportunities matures capabilities needed for NASA missions and commercial applications while strategically investing in the growth of the U.S. commercial spaceflight industry.
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![View into space and earth from spacecraft window](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/virgingalactic-first-spaceflight-cockpit-2020.jpg?w=1024)
TechLeap Universal Payload Interface Challenge Selections
Integrating diverse space payloads onto flight vehicles
![Four people sit on the ground, working to attach payload hardware to a metal frame that is lifted to eye-level in preparation for integration on to a suborbital flight.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/orionlabs-flightopportunitiesaoc-062022.png?w=946)
NASA Flight Test Services Contracts
Leveraging commercial providers for flight and payload integration services to test space technologies
![Two researchers study their experiment on a parabolic flight.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/zerog-purduecryo-t0291-0419-03062024-1900px.jpg?w=1024)
Community of Practice Webinars
Cryogenic Fluid Management for Future In-Space Transfer Systems
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Work with Us
Flight Opportunities offers several avenues for accessing flights on commercial vehicles in order to test and demonstrate space technologies. Whether you are a NASA employee, a student, or a researcher with a university, research institute, or commercial organization, funds may be available directly through the program or in collaboration between Flight Opportunities and other NASA programs.
Learn how to work with Flight Opportunities![Hands around floating box.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/microsoftteams-image_1_2.jpg?w=1024)
Resources
We offer a wealth of information to help researchers engage effectively with the Flight Opportunities program – from our Community of Practice webinar series and newsletters to reports, fact sheets, and archives of past solicitations.
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Tech Portfolio
This technology portfolio highlights the technologies that have been supported by Flight Opportunities and details how flight testing contributes to their maturation.
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