University Of Wisconsin Students Win 2011 X-Hab

University of Wisconsin students topped two other university teams to win the 2011 NASA eXploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge, a competition to design and build a space habitat. The team will now take its inflatable space loft to NASA’s...

NASA Personnel Simulate Space Exploration At Remote Arctic Crater Site

NASA personnel are among a group of international researchers who are in the Canadian Arctic assessing concepts for future planetary exploration as part of the Haughton-Mars Project, or HMP-2010.

NASA Selects 368 Small Business Innovation Projects for Development

NASA has selected 368 small business innovation projectsfor development that include research to minimize aging of aircraft, new techniques for suppressing fires on spacecraft and advanced transmitters for deep space communications.

LaserMotive of Seattle Wins $900,00 in the NASA Power Beaming Challenge Competition

NASA has awarded $900,000 in prize money to a Seattle company that successfully demonstrated new wireless energy beaming technology which could one day be used to help power a “space elevator.”