NASA programs

NASA/ESA/CSA space telescope launched in 2021

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo was conceived in 1960 in the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency during Project Mercury and executed after Project Gemini. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal, "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in his address to the U.S. Congress on May 25, 1961.

defunct NASA space telescope

The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), aimed at returning humans to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo program and building a permanent lunar base. It was formally established via Space Policy Directive-1 in 2017.

American scientific program consisting of the probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2

pair of NASA space probes sent to Mars

NASA space program

series of United States uncrewed space missions

The Space Launch System (SLS) is an American two-stage super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used by NASA. The primary launch vehicle for the Artemis program, SLS is designed to launch the four-person Orion spacecraft for missions to the Moon, on a trans-lunar injection trajectory. The rocket first launched on November 16, 2022, carrying the uncrewed Artemis I mission. Its first crewed launch was for the Artemis II lunar flyby on April 1, 2026, becoming the second launch vehicle to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit (LEO), after NASA's Saturn V of the Apollo program, and the third to ever be planned to fly humans past LEO, after the N1.

series of uncrewed space missions by the United States in the 1960s

1960s NASA program that sent robotic probes to the Moon

NASA robotic spacecraft orbiting the Moon

robotic space mission from NASA involving two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity exploring the planet Mars

family of American uncrewed military air and space vehicles

crewed spaceflight program developed by NASA from 2005 to 2009

series of space exploration missions being conducted by NASA

planned lunar international space station

American network of Earth-observing satellites for international research purposes

NASA space mission en route to Jupiter and Europa

series of five uncrewed lunar orbiter missions

United States government's crewed launch vehicle program, administered by NASA from 1972 to 2011

space program between Russia and the United States

series of space telescopes

NASA's space exploration missions

method used to accelerate spacecraft

United States space exploration program that provides flight opportunities for various investigations from space

retired NASA airborne infrared observatory

planned NASA infrared space observatory

American experimental supersonic airplane

U.S. Navy satellite program

cancelled joint NASA/ESA uncrewed space mission

series of NASA missions to explore the Solar System

flights awarded by NASA for the delivery of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station on commercially operated spacecraft

NASA program to send robotic landers and rovers to the Moon

NASA crew transportation partnership with private companies

joint NASA–ESA proposal for an exploration of Saturn and its moons Titan and Enceladus

research aircraft by McDonnell Douglas, later Boeing

program of NASA comprising a series of artificial satellite missions and scientific instruments in Earth orbit

United States space mission to collect samples from an asteroid

former NASA program

The Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA; ) was a nuclear thermal rocket engine development program that ran for roughly two decades. Its principal objective was to "establish a technology base for nuclear rocket engine systems to be utilized in the design and development of propulsion systems for space mission application". It was a joint effort of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and was managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO) until the program ended in January 1973. SNPO was led by NASA's Harold Fi

series of three American satellites launched in 1965

interstellar spaceprobe

second-generation U.S. robotic spacecraft

NASA project to develop nuclear-powered systems for long-duration space missions

NASA project

NASA program from 1984 to 1990

thumb|Artist's vision of Syncom satellite, 1963 Syncom (for "synchronous communication satellite") started as a 1961 NASA program for active geosynchronous communication satellites, all of which were developed and manufactured by the Space and Communications division of Hughes Aircraft Company (now the Boeing Satellite Development Center). Syncom 2, launched in 1963, was the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite. Syncom 3, launched in 1964, was the world's first geostationary satellite.

1979 experimental aircraft by NASA, Burt Rutan and Ames

freshwater lake in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica

proposed project comprising a large occulter flying in formation designed to block the light of nearby stars in order to observe their orbiting exoplanets

NASA's long-term effort to explore the planet Mars

NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO, is a NASA analog mission that sends groups of astronauts, engineers and scientists to live in the Aquarius underwater laboratory, the world's only undersea research station, for up to three weeks at a time in preparation for future space exploration.

NASA's cancelled space program intended to explore the outer solar system

Kilopower is an experimental U.S. project to make new nuclear reactors for space travel. The project started in October 2015, led by NASA and the DoE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). As of 2017, the Kilopower reactors were intended to come in four sizes, able to produce from one to ten kilowatts of electrical power (1–10 kWe) continuously for twelve to fifteen years. The fission reactor uses uranium-235 to generate heat that is carried to the Stirling converters with passive sodium heat pipes. In 2018, positive test results for the Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Techno

NASA and JAXA spacecraft for measuring global rainfall

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NASA space development partnership with private companies

1984 experiment involving purposeful crash of a Boeing 720, carried out for NASA and the FAA

grant project to work toward achieving interstellar travel