Future Exploration

Expanding Humanity Into the Solar System

This is the beginning of a new era in space exploration where we will build the capabilities to send humans deeper into space than ever before.

This approach will provide assured access to the ISS, strengthen America's space industry and provide a catalyst for future business ventures to ...

Tile Makers Creating Orion Shield

Workers recently began cutting and coating the first tiles that will protect an Orion spacecraft during re-entry.
NASA's Robotic Lander Performs Second Free-Flight Test

NASA's Robotic Lander Development Project at the Marshall Center conducted the second free-flight test of a robotic lander prototype.
NASA-Funded Scientists Make Watershed Lunar Discovery

A team of NASA-funded researchers has measured for the first time water from the moon in the form of tiny globules of molten rock, which have turned to glass-like material trapped within crystals.
NASA's Twin Craft Arrive in Florida for Moon Mission

NASA's twin lunar probes have arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for a launch in late summer.
The Power of A Moon Rock

Seeing a moon rock as a young girl made Debra Sea feel that anything was possible, and she wanted this generation to experience that feeling.

NASA Announces Lunabotics Mining Competition Winners

06.03.11 - Thirty-six teams of undergraduate and graduate students from around the globe tested their robot designs in a challenge at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida from May 26-28.
Tweetup At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Previews 2011 Missions

06.01.11 - News media representatives are invited to cover a Tweetup hosted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Monday, June 6.
NASA-Funded Scientists Make Lunar Watershed Discovery

05.26.11 - A team of NASA-funded researchers has measured for the first time water from the moon in the form of tiny globules of molten rock, which have turned to glass-like material trapped within crystals.