NASA's large strategic science missions or large strategic missions, formerly known as Flagship missions or Flagship-class missions, are the costliest...

list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. Since 1945...

spacecraft missions that conduct high-science-return investigations is NASA's strategy to further understand the Solar System. Large strategic missions (formerly...

Frontiers program NASA large strategic science missions Lunar Discovery and Exploration Program NASA names solar physicist as agency's science chief Andrew...

Spain (Madrid), and Australia (Canberra), that supports NASA's interplanetary spacecraft missions. It also performs radio and radar astronomy observations...

Decadal Survey in 2019 for a possible selection to NASA's large strategic science missions. Origins would provide an array of new tools for studying star...

Outer Planet/Solar Probe (OPSP) program formulated by NASA in the late 1990s. The first three missions of the program were planned to be: the Solar Orbiter...

States List of NOAA satellites List of NASA missions NASA large strategic science missions List of uncrewed NASA missions Lockheed Martin sold its interest...

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a robotic space probe mission to Mars launched by NASA on November 26, 2011, which successfully landed Curiosity, a Mars...

series of SLS missions. These space missions will increase in complexity and are scheduled to occur at intervals of a year or more. NASA and its partners...

Since 1958, NASA has overseen more than 1,000 uncrewed missions into Earth orbit or beyond. It has both launched its own missions and provided funding...

developed by NASA under the leadership of a Science and Technology Definition Team. It is one of four large astrophysics space mission concepts studied...

moons to Mars, any mission to them may also be considered a mission to Mars from some perspectives. Past missions Three missions to land on Phobos have...

astrobiology mission concept by NASA to send a lander to Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter. If funded and developed as a large strategic science mission, it would...

around 2033. The NASA–ESA plan, approved in September 2022, is to return samples using three missions: a sample collection mission (Perseverance), a...

inefficiency and large cost compared to uncrewed missions. In the 2010s, Republicans in Congress increasingly opposed the Earth science aspects of NASA spending...

effect, collisional cascading, or ablation cascade, is a scenario proposed by NASA scientists Donald J. Kessler and Burton G. Cour-Palais in 1978. It describes...

large strategic science mission for NASA. The science phase would last 4.5 years and include multiple flybys of each of the major moons. The mission concept...

"Dual Landers" The NASA Mars Design Reference Missions consisted of a series of conceptual design studies for human Mars missions, continued in the 21st...

through 20 – The Cancelled Missions". NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. Retrieved June 11, 2016. "Apollo 14". NASA. July 8, 2009. Retrieved June...

with the most sophisticated science instruments available. Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington, expect...

space missions. In support of human space systems, Orbital is one of two companies providing commercial cargo resupply services to the ISS for NASA. Orbital's...

2006 NASA Strategic Plan. NASA. 2006. OCLC 70110760. NP-2006-02-423-HQ. Science Plan for NASA's Science Mission Directorate 2007–2016 (PDF). NASA. 2007...

licensing of NASA patents, use of NASA facilities, technical assistance from NASA personnel, or data from NASA research. Information on new NASA technology...

sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission to collect and return samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis. Sample-return missions may...

(PDF). NASA. p. 32. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 17, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2022. Powering Science: NASA's Large Strategic Science Missions...

2017. Leone, Dan (7 November 2012). "NASA Acknowledges James Webb Telescope Costs Will Delay Other Science Missions". SpaceNews. Archived from the original...

This mission is a flight of NASA's Planetary Science Division, designated a Large Strategic Science Mission, and funded under the Planetary Missions Program...

starshade. The proposal, first made in 2016, is for a large strategic science missions NASA mission. It would operate at the Lagrange point L2. In January...

international space missions. It is based at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The first U.S. astronaut candidates were selected by NASA in 1959, for its...