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📢 Calling all innovators with Phase II contracts! The NASA SBIR STTR Civilian Commercialization Readiness Pilot Program is open now for qualifying small businesses and has its own distinct guidelines and requirements. go.nasa.gov/4vR8Y5D

A successful demo is just the beginning. 💫 NASA is extending operations of its Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT), a demo designed to improve connectivity in space. PExT will now pursue additional demonstrations to support next-gen communications. go.nasa.gov/4dVNCfg

🛰️ Help bridge today's mission needs with tomorrow's commercial ecosystem. 🚀 NASA is seeking proposals from industry to demonstrate backwards compatible Ka-band relay services for legacy missions; ensuring mission continuity while stimulating the commercial marketplace. 📡🌎 More: SAM.gov

Hello, Griffin-1! We’re pleased to have helped advance the Hazard Detection Lidar technology that will scan and analyze the Moon’s terrain in real-time to map and select the safest landing site. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4fSlkFo Credit: @astrobotictechnology

The performance of our AstroPix gamma-ray sensors will be tested on @NASA’s FFR (Fly Foundational Robots) mission set to launch in late 2027. In the future, these sensors could detect light from black hole-powered galaxies and cosmic explosions. More: go.nasa.gov/4eduN97

Introducing Artemis III. Four astronauts. Three launches. Two dockings. One splashdown. In 2027, the Artemis III mission will practice docking the Orion spacecraft with two lunar landers in low Earth orbit — the capability we need to return humanity to the Moon’s surface.

UPDATE: The Artemis III event will start at 11:30am ET (1530 UTC) on Tuesday, June 9!

On last week's Houston We Have a Podcast, Space Communications and Navigation Program's deputy program manager for capability development Greg Heckler discusses how his team is planning communications to support missions to the Moon and beyond. 🎧 Listen here: go.nasa.gov/43joNoP

Congratulations to the winners of the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition! 🏆 University students were challenged to bridge gaps in aerospace technology by innovating new system concepts and prototypes. Read more: go.nasa.gov/4o9bTn7

✅ Apollo-inspired engineer ✅ Artemis II interface manager ✅ Deep Space Network mission support Meet Kathleen Harmon, Artemis II interface manager for the Deep Space Network. Kathleen ensured the network was ready to support Artemis II spacecraft operations: go.nasa.gov/4ttXOBu

Today at 1 p.m. ET, learn about NASA’s latest TechLeap Prize: the Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge. Up to three winners will be selected to receive up to $500,000 each and the opportunity for a flight test. Join to hear tips for preparing an application: go.nasa.gov/4ocCLCI

There's still time to register for NASA's Mars to Table Challenge! Join the webinar on Thursday, June 4, with experts from NASA and the organization behind BioSim, who will answer questions about the challenge's expectations, rules, and deliverables. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4ueOIJk

Join us today for a live event where we'll share our @NASAMoonBase plans! At 2pm ET (1800 UTC), we'll update you on our progress toward a long-term presence on the Moon. Watch right here on X.

This Memorial Day, we honor the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation. Their courage secured the freedoms that make great endeavors possible and continues to inspire generations of Americans to serve something larger than themselves. We remember them, and we remain forever grateful.

Could a jumping robot explore Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus? 🪐 The LEAP robot is a bold mission concept that could hop across ice, jump through tall plumes and sample the subsurface ocean. See how LEAP could explore some of the most extreme terrain in the solar system: go.nasa.gov/4drj8TK

Congratulations to the winners of NASA's 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies competition! This year's competition challenged student teams to address a critical element of U.S. aviation: aircraft maintenance. Read more: go.nasa.gov/3Rib5zW

We're building a Moon Base! @NASAMoonBase will serve as a habitat where astronauts live and work during long-term science missions. Join us at 2pm ET on Tuesday, May 26, for a live news event where we’ll share updates on our lunar exploration plans: go.nasa.gov/4uinkLi

The AEPEX satellite was successfully deployed! 🛰️ This new CubeSat watches for X-rays from particles raining into our atmosphere. The data will improve space weather forecasts and protect the satellites and communications we rely on every day. 📡 go.nasa.gov/4tDxmpb

Gas stations in space? We’re working on it! ⛽ NASA is teaming up with Rocket Lab and Eta Space for LOXSAT, a low Earth orbit technology demo to address the challenges of using super-cold fuel in space. Launching aboard an Electron rocket, this demonstration could help shape the future of in-space propellant depots to refuel missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond: go.nasa.gov/4wzzq4h

POV: You’re coming home after a journey around the Moon. 🌕 Before reentering Earth’s atmosphere at the end of Artemis II, the Orion spacecraft’s crew module — carrying the astronauts — separated from the service module that provided propulsion and power throughout the mission.