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How about designing code that can help shape the future of in-space servicing infrastructure? Registration for the NASA Space Roboticist Challenge is officially open! Compete for allocated time on the FFR mission’s robotic arm. Let’s upgrade robotics in space together:

Registration for the Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table closes in one month! Join NASA and other experts for a webinar on July 9 at 12pm ET to answer your questions and get final reminders. Learn more:

We're testing new technologies to stick the landing on planetary surfaces with challenging terrain! Over 4 months, 4 precision landing systems flew on 4 different vehicles, gathering key data for safer, more accurate landings for future missions. More:

Something's cooking 🍽️ Stay tuned next week to learn how you can get involved in our upcoming food-based prize opportunity!

Join us on May 7 to find out how researchers leveraged simulated lunar gravity to advance their innovations aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket. Hear lessons learned and how flight tests like these speed up tech development and support industry:

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In the DC area on Thursday? NASA is hosting a free event for World Space Week where the public can learn how we streamed imagery from the Moon to Earth during the recent Artemis II mission. 👩‍🚀 Join us in-person on Oct. 8 at 3:30 p.m. at NASA Headquarters. Register:

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025-2026 NASA TechRise Student Challenge! The 60 teams of 6-12 graders from across the U.S. will launch their science and technology experiments on a Virgin Galactic or World View vehicle this summer:

Each year, our scientists, engineers, and developers create software packages to manage space missions, test spacecraft, and analyze data from research satellites. Through our new software catalog you can download and use these programs for free!

They say practice makes perfect. And it’s super important if you’re going to the Moon. Read about yesterday's Blue Origin flight that simulated lunar gravity for a whopping ~2 minutes, giving researchers more time to prep technologies for the big trip:

🚀 Student projects take flight! 🎈 On July 1, 25 middle & high school experiments launched aboard a World View high-altitude balloon as part of the fifth NASA TechRise Student Challenge. Check it out & pre-register now for next year’s challenge! 📚✨

Attention middle &amp; high schoolers: The 6th NASA TechRise Student Challenge is now open! Submit a proposal for a chance to fly your experiment on a NASA-sponsored high-altitude balloon flight test with @aerostarint. No experience needed! 🎈

Could a jumping robot explore Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus? 🪐 The LEAP robot is a bold mission concept that could hop across ice, jump through tall plumes and sample the subsurface ocean. See how LEAP could explore some of the most extreme terrain in the solar system:

Not science fiction, science fact! 🔬 Researchers are exploring an idea to use engineered bacteria to clean Martian water, turning contaminants into consumables. This concept could one day help us produce valuable resources for explorers on the Red Planet. Explore more:

Jason Frieman is an electrical engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center working on the most fuel efficient rocket engine we've ever built. This electric propulsion system brings science fiction space travel to life and could bridge the gap to get us to Mars:

The Intuitive Machines Hopper robot – heading to the Moon tonight aboard the IM-2 mission – will deploy from the Athena lander and hop into a nearby crater, providing a first look into undiscovered regions on the lunar surface. More about this novel tech:

In partnership with Nokia, we're setting up the first mobile network on the Moon! Launching with Intuitive Machines on Feb. 26, the Lunar Surface Communication System will use the same cellular tech used on Earth to establish lunar surface connectivity:

“…a lot of people told me that I couldn’t do it. Well, watch me, I can.” NASA's Glenn Research Center's Lauren Ameen develops technology to keep rocket fuel cold for long-duration missions – one of the most enabling capabilities to get astronauts to the Moon and Mars:

Attention middle & high schoolers: The 6th NASA TechRise Student Challenge is now open! Submit a proposal for a chance to fly your experiment on a NASA-sponsored high-altitude balloon flight test with @aerostarint. No experience needed! 🎈