NASA's planned space exploration

NASA THE NEXT CHAPTER NASA's planned missions through 2030 LADEE (Sept. 2013) Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer This 160-day-long robotic mission will orbit the moon, gathering information on the lunar atmosphere will help scientists better understand other planets. MAVEN (late 2013) Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission Mars may not have always been dry and dusty. MÁVEN will shed light on the planet's past climate by exploring its upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind. Magnetospheriç Multiscale Mission (2014) Using four identical spacecraft, variably spaced in Earth orbit, this mission will investigate how the Sun's and Earth's magnetic fields connect and disconnect. New Horizons (2015) The spacecraft launched in 2006, embarking on a decade-long journey to mysterious Pluto more than 3 bilion miles away. It will make its dramatic flight past the icy planet and its moons in July 2015. Juno (ate 2016) Traveling at a velocity of 19 miles per second, Juno is in hot pursuit of Jupiter to study its structure and unveil its history. reach the giant planet in 20 set InSight (2016) This discovery mission will place a lander on Mars to look deep.into the planet's interior. By drilling underneath its soil, scientists hope to better understand Mars' evolution as a rocky planet. TESS (2017) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Using telescopes, TESS will search for transiting exoplanets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants. Its ultimate goal is to identify terrestrial planets in habitable zones of nearby stars. Solar Probe Plus (2018) This extraordinary and historic mission will explore what is arguably the last region of the solar system to be visited by a spacecraft: the sun's outer atmosphere. James Webb Telescope (2018) The next-generation successor to Hubble will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way galaxy. OSIRIS-Rex (2018) Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer After traveling 3 years, the spacecraft will approach a 1,900-foot primitive asteroid named "1999 RQ36.* It will use a robotic arm to pluck samples for return to Earth in 2023. Mars Rover (2020) NASA's next rover will look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible return to Earth and test technology for future human exploration. Manned Mission to an Asteroid (2025) In 2010, President Obama announced plans for sending humans to an asteroid. Úsing data from OSIRIS-Rex, NASA hopes to enable astronaut missions as early as 2021. Manned Mission to Mars (2030) Ten years after NASA lands its 2020 rover, the agency hopes to send humans to Mars. President Obama, in 2013, committed to getting an astronaut to the Red Planet "in the 2030s." Mashable