NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is the United States government agency responsible for space exploration, space technology, and aeronautics research. As a space agency, NASA leads both crewed and robotic missions, develops new space technologies, and conducts research in space science. NASA is known for its partnerships with organizations like ESA and its work on programs like the International Space Station (ISS), the Artemis Program, and the Space Launch System (SLS). Associated keywords include: space exploration, aeronautics, space technology, and scientific discovery.
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NASA will need to buy at least three additional crew flights from SpaceX or Boeing to keep the International Space Station staffed through its planned retirement in 2030.
The Space Flight Operations Facility monitors and controls numerous NASA interplanetary missions.
The NASA contract is Intuitive Machines’ sixth CLPS task order.
Boeing’s Commercial Crew contract was reduced from $4.2 billion to $3.7 billion after NASA removed two flights from the agreement last November.
The Intuitive Machines contract is structured to qualify Nova-C for serial production and support a higher-volume pipeline of lunar deliveries for NASA and commercial customers.
On July 10, 2026, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Ahsan Iqbal, held talks with NASA and private American aerospace companies during an official visit to Houston.
On July 10, 2026, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Ahsan Iqbal, initiated talks with NASA and private American aerospace companies during an official visit to Houston.
Pakistan plans to integrate NASA’s training frameworks and scientific expertise into its domestic academic pipeline.
Anil Menon, Pyotr Dubrov, and Anna Kikina will join NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, and Chris Williams, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Sergei Mikaev, and Andrey Fedyaev on the station.
NASA awarded Blue Origin a $3.4 billion contract in 2023 to support crewed lunar landings.
NASA’s Psyche mission carried an imager, magnetometers, and a gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer during the Mars flyby.
NASA and the USGS describe the ER-2 data set as the largest airborne surface-mineralogy archive produced in a single joint campaign.
NASA's artificial intelligence system integrates data from multiple satellite missions to detect harmful algal blooms.
NASA awarded Blue Origin a $188 million contract in May to launch two rovers to the lunar South Pole by 2028.
The Mars flyby allowed NASA to calibrate Psyche’s instruments in a planetary environment before asteroid observations begin.
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will use solar-electric propulsion again after the Mars flyby.
NASA-USGS Geologic Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx) uses the AVIRIS sensor to identify potential critical mineral sources in the United States.
The NASA system was developed by researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Spatial Informatics Group.
Initial GRITSS data collection passes will focus on broadcasting signals to NASA tracking stations in Maryland, Texas, and Hawaii.
NASA’s Geodetic Reference Instrument Transponder for Small Satellites (GRITSS) technology demonstration spacecraft launched into low Earth orbit on July 7, 2026.