Origins Program
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.
So far, it consists of the following missions:ground-based
- * Keck telescopes*
- * Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer*
- * Keck Interferometer*airborne
- * Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)*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