Roving Jezero Crater
Perseverance & Ingenuity
Mars 2020
Searching for signs of ancient microbial life in Jezero Crater while caching samples for the first round-trip journey to Mars.
Jul 30, 2020 Mars
Explore missionArtemis II · Crewed Lunar Flyby · 2026
Exploring the Universe.Advancing Humanity.
For over six decades NASA has pushed beyond the known, discovering new worlds, advancing science, and inspiring generations.
Active Fleet
Current Missions
From the floor of Jezero Crater to the edge of interstellar space — a fleet of explorers working around the clock, hundreds of millions of kilometers apart.
Artemis II in Prep
Return to the Moon
Artemis
Establishing the first long-term human presence on the Moon — the proving ground for the leap to Mars.
Nov 16, 2022 Moon
Explore mission
Observing from L2
Space Telescope
James Webb
Peering 13.5 billion years into the past from L2, unfolding the story of the first galaxies, stars, and worlds.
Dec 25, 2021 Sun–Earth L2
Explore mission
Interstellar Space
Grand Tour, Continued
Voyager
Humanity's farthest emissaries — over 24 billion kilometers out, still whispering home from interstellar space.
Aug–Sep 1977 Beyond the heliosphere
Explore mission
Cruise to Jupiter
Ocean World Explorer
Europa Clipper
En route to Jupiter's icy moon Europa to determine whether its hidden ocean could harbor the conditions for life.
Oct 14, 2024 Europa
Explore mission
Low Earth Orbit
Space Telescope
Hubble
Three decades of rewriting astronomy — from dark energy to deep fields, our sharpest window on the visible universe.
Apr 24, 1990 LEO · 540 km
Explore missionFlight Manifest
Launch Timeline
Every launch is a bet on the future. Here is where that future is headed.
2021
James Webb Space Telescope
Ariane 5 · Kourou
The largest space observatory ever built begins its million-mile journey to L2.
Mission complete2022
Artemis I
SLS Block 1 · LC-39B
Orion flies 434,522 km from Earth — farther than any spacecraft built for humans.
Mission complete2024
Europa Clipper
Falcon Heavy · LC-39A
The largest planetary spacecraft NASA has ever launched departs for an ocean world.
Mission complete2026
Artemis II
SLS Block 1 · LC-39B
Four astronauts fly around the Moon — the first crewed lunar voyage in over 50 years.
Upcoming2027
Dragonfly
Falcon Heavy · LC-39A
A nuclear-powered rotorcraft sets course for Titan's organic dunes and methane seas.
Upcoming2028
Artemis III
SLS + Starship HLS
The first woman and next man step onto the lunar South Pole.
Upcoming
Home Planet
Earth From Space
A fleet of satellites watches our planet breathe — tracking storms, ice, oceans and cities in real time. Drag the globe.
Live · 26 satellites
Cloud cover
67%
Sea surface
+1.2°C
Blue Marble 2012
Composite from the Suomi NPP satellite — Earth in unprecedented detail.
Station Sunrise
Through the Cupola
26
Earth-observing satellites
24 TB
Data collected daily
50+
Years of climate record
The Red Planet
Mars Exploration
Two rovers on the ground, a helicopter's legacy in the dust, and samples waiting to come home. Mars is no longer a destination — it's a workplace.
- Distance from Sun
- 227.9M km
- Length of day
- 24h 37m
- Gravity
- 0.38 g
- Tallest volcano
- 21.9 km
ActivePerseverance
2021 — Present
Produced oxygen from the Martian atmosphere and cached 24 sample tubes for return to Earth.
ActiveCuriosity
2012 — Present
Confirmed ancient Mars had the chemistry to support living microbes — over 30 km traveled.
RetiredIngenuity
2021 — 2024
First powered flight on another world — 72 flights, far beyond its 5-flight design.
Artemis Program
Return to the Moon
Not flags and footprints this time — infrastructure. Artemis builds the permanent bridge between Earth and deep space.
Artemis I
Complete · 2022Uncrewed flight test of SLS and Orion around the Moon.
- 2
Artemis II
2026First crewed Orion flight — four astronauts on a free-return lunar flyby.
- 3
Artemis III
2028Crewed landing at the lunar South Pole aboard Starship HLS.
- 4
Gateway
2029+The first space station around another world — humanity's lunar outpost.
Orion · Artemis I
Earthset
The Corps
Astronauts
Pilots, physicians, geologists, dreamers. The people who carry all of us with them.
Neil Armstrong
Apollo 11 Commander
Neil Armstrong
Apollo 11 Commander
The first human to set foot on another world. 'One small step' became the defining sentence of the 20th century.
Gemini 8 · Apollo 11
Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot
Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot
Pioneer of orbital rendezvous and the second man on the Moon — photographed in the most famous portrait ever taken off Earth.
Gemini 12 · Apollo 11
Sally Ride
First American Woman in Space
Sally Ride
First American Woman in Space
Physicist, astronaut, educator. At 32, the youngest American to fly — she spent her life opening the door for those who followed.
STS-7 · STS-41-G
Mae Jemison
First Black Woman in Space
Mae Jemison
First Black Woman in Space
Physician, engineer, and dancer who orbited Earth 127 times — proof that science and imagination share one trajectory.
STS-47 Endeavour
Victor Glover
Artemis II Pilot
Victor Glover
Artemis II Pilot
Naval aviator and ISS flight engineer, now piloting humanity's return to the Moon aboard Orion.
Crew-1 · Artemis II
Jessica Watkins
Geologist · Artemis Team
Jessica Watkins
Geologist · Artemis Team
Planetary geologist who helped drive Curiosity on Mars — a leading candidate for the first footsteps on the Red Planet.
Crew-4 · Expedition 67
The Archive
Gallery
1.7 million frames of the universe, free for all humankind. A few favorites.
NASA TV
Watch It Live
Launches, spacewalks, landings — history streams in real time.
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Distance traveled
by Voyager 1
Dispatches
Latest News
Field notes from the frontier — what the fleet found this week.
Frontier Technology
Built for the Impossible
Every mission demands machines that have never existed. So we invent them.
Robotics
From Mars helicopters to robotic arms that catch spacecraft — machines that extend human reach across the solar system.
Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous navigation, onboard science triage, and mission planning — AI that thinks at light-speed distances.
Space Telescopes
Segmented mirrors, sunshields the size of tennis courts, and starlight-nulling coronagraphs hunting Earth 2.0.
Rocket Engines
Staged combustion, nuclear thermal propulsion, and solar electric drives — the engines of the next great leap.
The Next Chapter Needs You
Join Humanity's Journey Beyond Earth
Scientists, engineers, artists, students — exploration is a team of millions. Your seat on the mission is open.