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NASA Opportunities Fuel Growth and Entrepreneurship for Bronco Space Club Students
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NASA’s public competitions can catalyze big changes – not just for the agency but also for participants. Bronco Space, the…

Next Generation NASA Technologies Tested in Flight
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Teams of NASA researchers put their next-generation technologies to the microgravity test in a series of parabolic flights that aim…

NASA Program Sends University Payloads to Space
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NASA’s Flight Opportunities program sent two university payloads on suborbital flight tests onboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity on June 8…

Compact Robot Takes Flight to Support CERISS Initiative
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NASA’s TechFlights 2023 Selections Advance Space Science in Collaboration with Industry A new robot will be taking flight soon to…

NASA Helps Emerging Space Companies ‘Take the Heat’
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Things are heating up in the atmosphere, and NASA is helping space start-ups stay cool.   NASA has decades of…

NASA Awards Contracts for Flight, Payload Integration Services
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NASA has selected 15 companies to provide flight and payload integration services to advance technologies and procedures for operating in…

NASA Experiment Sheds Light on Highly Charged Moon Dust
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Researchers are studying data from a recent suborbital flight test to better understand lunar regolith, or Moon dust, and its…

NASA Tests New Spacecraft Propellant Gauge on Lunar Lander
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Editor’s note, Feb. 6, 2024: This article has been updated to clarify that the Radio Frequency Mass Gauge estimates how much…

NASA’s Laser Navigation Tech Enables Commercial Lunar Exploration
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Later this month, NASA’s commercial lunar delivery services provider Intuitive Machines will launch its Nova-C lunar lander carrying several NASA…

NASA Selects Winners of Third TechRise Student Challenge
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NASA is announcing 60 winning teams for its third TechRise Student Challenge, a nationwide contest to engage students in technology,…

NASA, Partners Continue to Advance Space Tech on Suborbital Flights
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Living and working in space requires getting ready a bit closer to Earth. Through a suborbital flight test on Dec.…

NASA Supports Tests of Dust Sensor to Aid Lunar Landings
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University of Central Florida researchers tested an instrument designed to measure the size and speed of surface particles kicked up…

NASA Seeks Development of Universal Payload Interface
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NASA is calling on innovators to help solve some of the challenges in rapidly testing technology payloads across a wide…

NASA Challenges Students to Fly Earth and Space Experiments
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Lee esta nota de prensa en español aqui. NASA is calling on middle and high school students across the country to…

NASA TechRise Student Challenge Tests Experiments in Stratosphere
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On July 24, students from 30 middle and high schools selected for NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge watched their experiments launch…