Future Missions

  • Graphic of Hubble Telescope on Eagle Nebula background

    Hubble Servicing Mission 4

    Astronauts return to Hubble to extend the life of one of NASA's greatest observatories.

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  • Space Shuttle Discovery

    International Space Station

    Learn about the next mission to the International Space Station.

  • LCROSS

    LCROSS

    The LCROSS mission's objective is to confirm the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at the moon's South Pole.

  • Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter

    LRO: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

    LRO will launch in late 2008 to find safe landing sites, locate potential resources and demonstrate new technology.

  • Artist concept of SDO probe

    SDO: Solar Dynamics Observatory

    The Solar Dynamics Observatory, scheduled for launch in 2008, will help us understand the sun's influence on Earth by studying the solar atmosphere at multiple wavelengths.

  • Space Shuttle Endeavour

    Space Shuttle

    The space shuttle is the most complex machine ever built and is helping build the International Space Station, the world's largest orbiting laboratory.

  • Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

    Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer  →

    WISE will study the solar system, Milky Way and universe. Among the objects WISE will study are asteroids, the coolest and dimmest stars and the most luminous galaxies.