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)* Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) - completed Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) - completed Kepler Space Observatory - completed Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) - cancelled Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) - cancelled James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) * Single Aperture Far Infrared Observatory (SAFIR) Large UV/Optical Telescope Life Finder Planet Imager
Missions marked with * are operational.
References
External links Origins Program - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory