Future Missions

  • This image represents a notional spacecraft with its asteroid capture mechanism stowed. Image Credit: NASA/Advanced Concepts Laboratory

    Asteroid Retrieval Initiative

    Initiative to robotically capture an asteroid and redirect it to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system.

  • Commercial Crew

    Partnership to help the aerospace industry in the US develop space transportation systems that can safely launch astronauts to the ISS and other low-Earth orbit destinations.

  • This artist's concept shows the Euclid spacecraft. Image credit: ESA/C. Carreau

    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.

  • Artist's concept of the IRIS satellite in orbit.

    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.

  • Artist's Rendition of InSight

    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.

  • Space Shuttle Discovery

    International Space Station

    Learn about the next mission to the International Space Station.

  • Artist's rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope, set to launch in 2013.

    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.

  • LADEE

    Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)

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

  • 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.