Origins Program

NASA's Origins program is a decades-long study addressing the origins of the universe, various astronomical bodies, and life.

So far, it consists of the following missions:

• Hubble Space Telescope*
• Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer*
• Spitzer Space Telescope*
• Keck telescopes*
• Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer*
• Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
• Kepler Space Observatory
• Space Interferometry Mission
• Terrestrial Planet Finder
• James Webb Space Telescope
• Single Aperture Far Infrared Observatory
• Large UV/Optical Telescope
• Life Finder
• Planet Imager

Missions marked with * are operational.