JPL Engineers Put Their Skills to the Test With Halloween Pumpkins
Pumpkin carving reaches new heights during the annual competition, where spacecraft-building engineers mix ingenuity and creativity for some spectacular results. When mechanical engineers accustomed to building one-of-a-kind spacecraft turn that…
Previous NASA Awards for In Space Production Applications
As of spring 2023, NASA has invested greater than $60M in more than twenty In Space Production Applications (InSPA) awards to entities seeking to demonstrate the production of advanced materials…
NASA Kennedy Awards Operational, Institutional Support Contract
NASA has awarded the Kennedy Operational and Institutional Support (KOIS) contract to Chiricahua-Logical Joint Venture of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide services at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.…
Halloween on the International Space Station
Although no ghouls or goblins or trick-or-treaters come knocking at the International Space Station’s front hatch, crew members aboard the orbiting facility still like to get in the Halloween spirit.…
InSPA Inter-Agency Collaboration Goals
High quality production photos of Robonaut (R2) in Building 14 EMI chamber and R1/EMU photos in Building 32 – Robonaut Lab. Photo Date: June 1, 2010. Location: Building 14 –…
NASA Implementation Strategy for In Space Production Applications
NASA’s In Space Production Applications (InSPA) implementation strategy consists of a multi-phase award process to demonstrate proof-of-concept, advance to high production quality, and ultimately to achieve scalability on a commercial…
In Space Production: Applications Within Reach
After four decades of microgravity research, NASA and the ISS National Lab have identified numerous applications that are within reach for NASA’s In Space Production Applications (InSPA) portfolio. Uniform crystals,…
What is In Space Production Applications?
NASA supports In Space Production Applications (InSPA) awards to help the selected companies raise the technological readiness level of their products and move them to market, propelling industry toward the development…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Improves Simulation Software
The James Webb Space Telescope truly explores the unknown, displaying stunning images of previously unseen corners of the universe only possible because of the telescope’s 21-foot segmented mirror that unfurled…
Salts and Organics Observed on Ganymede’s Surface by NASA’s Juno
Data collected by NASA’s Juno mission indicates a briny past may be bubbling to the surface on Jupiter’s largest moon. NASA’s Juno mission has observed mineral salts and organic compounds…