Origins Program

NASA's Origins program is a decades-long study addressing the origins of the universe, various astronomical bodies, and life. The Origins program was started in the 1990s.

So far, it consists of the following missions:
 * ground based
 * Keck telescopes*
 * Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer*
 * Keck Interferometer*
 * airborne
 * Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)*
 * space based
 * Hubble Space Telescope (HST)* e
 * Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) - completed
 * Spitzer Space Telescope (SST)*
 * Kepler Space Observatory*
 * Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) - cancelled
 * Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) - cancelled
 * James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - in development
 * Single Aperture Far Infrared Observatory (SAFIR)
 * Large UV/Optical Telescope
 * Life Finder
 * Planet Imager

Missions marked with * are operational.