Origins Program
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NASA's Origins program is a decades-long study addressing the origins of the universe, various astronomical bodies, and life. The Origins program was started in the 1990s.[1]
So far, it consists of the following missions:
- ground-based
- airborne
- space based
- Hubble Space Telescope (HST)*
- Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) - completed
- Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) - completed
- Kepler Space Observatory - completed
- Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) - cancelled
- Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) - cancelled
- James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
- Single Aperture Far Infrared Observatory (SAFIR)
- Large UV/Optical Telescope
- Life Finder
- Planet Imager
Missions marked with * are operational.
References
- ^ "United States Centennial of Flight Commission - NASA". Archived from the original on 2011-10-14. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
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