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.^[1]

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
• Keck interferometer*
• 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.

References

External links

• [www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/fact_sheets/origins.pdf Origins Program - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory]