Lunar Glovebox Development

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Description

This effort will identify technologies in current, operational gloveboxes that can be upgraded. Targeted improvements will be efficiency, sound levels, and power consumption. Additional goals will be to reduce the overall complexity, and thereby the system requirements, while maintaining essential safety and performance. This will improve reliability and ensure levels of containment remain if a system fails.

Benefits

A glovebox system with reduced complexity and improved efficiency. This will enable operation across a broader range of vehicles while allowing users to conduct activities in an isolated, dust-free volume.

Details

Technology area	Exploration Destination Systems > Mission Infrastructure, Sustainability, and Supportability
Program	Agency Independent Research and Development (A-IRAD)
Lead organization	Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
Start date	2026-10-01
End date	2027-09-30

Project contacts

Listed on TechPort itself — the most direct way to ask about this specific project.

Rush E Elkins — rush.e.elkins@nasa.gov
Katherine J Presson — katie.j.presson@nasa.gov
Phillip G Bryant — phillip.g.bryant@nasa.gov

How to get involved

This is a mature technology (TRL 7+) — the realistic path in is usually NASA's Technology Transfer Program: licensing an existing NASA patent, or a Space Act Agreement to use NASA facilities/expertise directly. NASA also runs a startup licensing program with no upfront fee for companies formed to commercialize a specific NASA technology.

None of these are guaranteed paths for this specific project — TechPort itself doesn't have an "apply" button. Reaching out to the contact(s) above with a specific question is usually the fastest way to find out what's actually open.