NASA. Future Missions.

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  Euclid

  
  

  NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

  
  


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  IRIS: Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph

  
  

  IRIS will observe how solar material moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the sun's lower atmosphere. Tracking how material and energy move through this region is a crucial part of understanding the dynamics of the sun.

  
  


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  InSight Mars Lander  ?

  
  

  InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) is a proposed NASA Discovery Program mission that will place a single geophysical lander on Mars to study its deep interior.

  
  


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  International Space Station

  
  

  Learn about the next mission to the International Space Station.

  
  


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  James Webb Space Telescope

  
  

  The James Webb Space Telescope is a large space telescope, optimized for infrared wavelengths. Webb will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy.

  
  


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  Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)

  
  

  NASA’s LADEE mission will orbit the moon to characterize the atmosphere and lunar dust environment.

  
  


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  Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN)

  
  

  The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission, scheduled for launch in late 2013, will be the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere.

  
  


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  Mars 2020 Mission Plans  ?

  
  

  This mission would advance high-priority science goals for Mars exploration, including key questions about the potential for life on Mars. It would also respond to the challenge of sending humans to Mars orbit, perhaps as early as the 2030s.