NASA programs NASA programs Access 5 is a national project sponsored by NASA and industry with participation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and United States Department of Defense (DoD) to introduce high altitude long endurance (HALE) remotely operated aircraft (ROA) for routine flights in the National Airspace System (NAS). Access 5 commenced in May 2004 and is slated to run for five years. The project has received initial funding from NASA and guarantees of support from the ROA industry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Access 5"
The NASA Beyond Einstein program is a program designed to explore the limits of Einstein's theory of General Relativity. It includes two space observatories, and several cosmology probes. The program culminates in the Einstein Vision probes, which will likely be considered as Great Observatories. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beyond Einstein program"
The Caves of Mars Project is a NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts funded program to assess the best place to situate the research and habitation modules that a manned mission to Mars would require. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caves of Mars Project"
NASA's Discovery Program is a series of lower-cost, highly focused scientific space missions. It was founded to implement NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin's vision of "faster, better, cheaper" planetary missions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Discovery Program"
The Earth Observing System (EOS) is a program of NASA comprising a series of artificial satellite missions and scientific instruments in Earth orbit designed for long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, atmosphere, and oceans of the Earth. The satellite component of the program was launched in 1997. The program is centerpiece of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE). ...more on Wikipedia about "Earth Observing System"
EarthKAM (previously known as KidSat) is a NASA sponsored program started in 1996 that allows middle school students to request stunning, high-quality photographs of our planet taken from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. Since its creation, thousands of photographs of Earth have been taken by digital cameras on select space flights and the International Space Station. The digitized images are transmitted from orbit via a TDRSS Ku-band satellite link to Johnson Space Center Mission Control. ...more on Wikipedia about "EarthKAM"
NASA's Getaway Special program, officially known as the Small, Self-Contained Payloads program, offers interested individuals or groups, opportunities to fly small experiments aboard the space shuttle. To assure that diverse groups have access to space, NASA rotates payload assignments among three major categories of users: educational, foreign and commercial, and U.S. government. ...more on Wikipedia about "Getaway Special"
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NASA's series of Great Observatories satellites were four large, powerful space-based telescopes. Each of the Great Observatories has/had a similar size and cost at program outset, and each has made a substantial contribution to astronomy. The four missions each had a region of the electromagnetic spectrum to which it was particularly suited. ...more on Wikipedia about "Great Observatories program"
Mariner Mark II was NASA's planned family of unmanned spacecraft for the exploration of the outer solar system that were to be developed and operated by JPL between 1990 through the year 2010. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mariner Mark II"
The Mariner program was a series of unmanned interplanetary probes designed to investigate Mars, Venus and Mercury. The program included a number of firsts, including the first planetary flyby, the first planetary orbiter, and the first gravity assist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mariner program"
The Mars Surveyor '98 program comprised two spacecraft launched separately, the Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) and the Mars Polar Lander (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander); on board the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft were two surface-penetrator probes ( Deep Space 2). The two missions were to study the Martian weather, climate, and water and carbon dioxide budget, in order to understand the reservoirs, behavior, and atmospheric role of volatiles and to search for evidence of long-term and episodic climate changes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mars Surveyor '98 program"
The NIAC is a future-oriented research program that often accepts radical and far-reaching ideas. The purpose is to "leapfrog" the progression of current aerospace concepts, and revolutionize the industry. ...more on Wikipedia about "NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts"
The Navigator Program is a long term NASA project charged with over-seeing all missions related to the detection and characterization of Earth-like planets. It also seeks to further understand how galaxies, stars and planets form. Navigator, with a twenty-five year time window, is essentially an umbrella program for more specific current and proposed projects which seek out Earth analogues and possible extraterrestrial life. The main components of Navigator include two ground-based and two space based missions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Navigator Program"
NASA's Origins program is a decades-long study addressing the origins of the universe, various astronomical bodies, and life. ...more on Wikipedia about "Origins Program"
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NASA's Planetary Observer series was still birthed, resulting in only one, failed, mission. ...more on Wikipedia about "Planetary Observer program"
Project Prometheus was established in 2003 by NASA to develop nuclear-powered systems for long-duration space missions. This is NASA's first serious foray into nuclear spacecraft propulsion since the cancellation of the NERVA project in 1972. However, as of 2005, the Project faces an uncertain future and is likely to be reduced to a low-level research effort. Its budget will shrink from $430 million in 2005 to only $100 million in 2006, $90 million of which is already being allocated to pay closeout costs on cancelled contracts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Project Prometheus"
Project Vanguard was the name given to the first United States program that was commissioned to design and launch the first artificial satellite into Earth orbit. The surprise launch of Sputnik I on October 4, 1957 shocked the U.S. and led to the start of a parallel crash program by the U.S. Army, that eventually launched the first U.S. satellite, Explorer I. The spectacular televised failure of Vanguard TV3 on December 6, 1957 deepened American dismay near the height of the Cold War. ...more on Wikipedia about "Project Vanguard"
The Space Interferometry Mission (SIM), also called "SIM PlanetQuest," is a NASA instrument expected to be launched in 2011. Once in orbit, scientists expect SIM to be able to make very accurate astrometric observations of distant stars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Space Interferometry Mission"
NASA's Viking program consisted of two unmanned space missions to Mars, Viking 1 and Viking 2. Each mission had a satellite designed to photograph the surface of Mars from orbit, and to act as a communication relay for the Viking lander that each mission carried. It was the most expensive and ambitious mission ever sent to Mars. It was highly successful and formed most of the database of information about Mars until the late 1990's and early 2000's. ...more on Wikipedia about "Viking program"
The Voyager program consisted of a pair of unmanned scientific probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched in 1977. They were sent to study Jupiter and Saturn, using an advantageous planetary alignment of the late 1970s. However, the mission planners always had in the back of their minds a continued mission, and Voyager 2 also examined Uranus and Neptune. They were originally conceived as part of the Mariner program, being Mariner 11 and Mariner 12 respectively. The original program name was Mariner Jupiter-Saturn. It was later given the more appealing and romantic name "Voyager". ...more on Wikipedia about "Voyager program"
The Voyager program was a planned series of unmanned NASA probes to Mars. The missions were planned between 1966 and 1968 and scheduled for launch in 1974– 75.The probes were conceived as precursors for a manned Mars landing in the 1980s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Voyager program (Mars)"
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