Insight · Nov 18, 2025

Reading NASA's Human Research Program Gap List

NASA publishes the human-health risks it has not yet solved. That list is a procurement forecast hiding in plain sight.

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Documented needs

The HRP gap list names, in the agency's own words, the crew-health problems that remain open. A technology matched to a named gap has a fundamentally stronger case than one chasing a trend.

From gap to pursuit

We map client capabilities against the gap list to find the two or three where a real, fundable pursuit exists.

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