NASA selected six U.S. companies to help expand knowledge, commercial capabilities and opportunities in space by developing full-sized ground prototypes and concepts for deep space habitats under the ...

NASA has awarded six companies separate contracts worth up to $65 million combined to help the agency research concepts and develop ground prototypes for deep space habitats. The six companies will ...

HOUSTON—NASA now has six U.S. companies working on deep-space astronaut habitats under the agency’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) initiative. Sierra Nevada Corp.’s ...

An ambitious and at points, contentious project 15 years in the making... Is moving ONE step closer to reality.On Thursday, the placer county planning comission Fernley City Council votes to remove ...

A company establishing a manufacturing presence at Kennedy Space Center plans to use innovative Kevlar-like materials to build an expandable space habitat for low Earth orbit in a bid to answer NASA's ...

To stay healthy, astronauts have to eat a balanced diet each day while exploring beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, and right now, NASA researchers are designing robots to tend gardens in deep-space ...

Congress has instructed NASA to step up the development of a “habitation module” that can take astronauts on deep space missions. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

NASA’s next generation of Moon crews will not step onto the regolith alone. Alongside the astronauts, compact robotic “droids” are being designed to float, roll, and walk through deep space habitats, ...

NASA’s CHAPEA mission, designed to simulate the challenges of long-duration Mars exploration, has now reached a milestone, ...

In my recent EDN article, Man’s endeavor to live beyond Planet Earth, I discussed the present efforts of NASA and the Biosphere 2 in their efforts towards a Bio-Regenerative Life Support System (BLSS) ...

The familiar silhouette of the International Space Station (ISS) is the first thing we think of when it comes to a habitat in space. But the ISS is not the only one. Space habitation has evolved into ...