REACH NEW HEIGHTS
Calling all future scientists and engineers! NASA is leading our world on a journey of exploration. If you’re in the New Orleans area, find out how you can join in at the Essence Festival, June 30-July 2.
NASA Innovation Drives Our Journey
NASA's vision of the future is clear. We will continue the human and robotic exploration of space. We will develop new technologies for use in air, in space and here on earth. We will be part of a strong, high-tech economy. We will increase our understanding of the universe and our place in it while caring for and protecting our planet. We will make air travel more efficient, safe and clean.
NASA is proud to be the agency leading our nation into the future and continuing America's legacy of pushing the boundaries of human imagination and innovation. We look forward to sharing this adventure with the American people.
--Charles F. Bolden, Jr., NASA Administrator
Earth
Your planet is changing. We're on it.
Earth is changing, and we're on it because we are uniquely qualified to take on the challenge of documenting and understanding these changes, predicting the ramifications, and sharing information across the globe.
NASA Is With You When You Fly
Air travel fuels our modern world.
We're committed to transforming aviation by dramatically reducing its environmental impact, maintaining safety in more crowded skies, and paving the way toward revolutionary aircraft shapes and propulsion.
International Space Station
Off the Earth for the Earth
Our journey to Mars is unfolding right now aboard the International Space Station, where astronauts are doing research at our outpost on the edge of deep space.
American commercial companies are now delivering cargo to the station, and in a few years we'll be launching our crews on U.S.-made spacecraft from American soil.
NASA's Journey To Mars
NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s. Future Mars exploration could uncover evidence of life, answering one of the fundamental mysteries of the cosmos. Our next step is deep space, where NASA will send a robotic mission to capture and redirect an asteroid to orbit the moon. Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft will explore the asteroid in the 2020s, returning to Earth with samples. Human missions to Mars will rely on Orion and an evolved version of the Space Launch System that will be the most powerful launch vehicle ever flown. A fleet of robotic spacecraft and rovers already are on and around Mars, dramatically increasing our knowledge about the Red Planet and paving the way for future human explorers.
Solar System and Beyond
We're out there
Our impressive fleet of science missions take us on a journey of discovery to understand our home planet and its sun, search for life beyond and explore the origins and future of the universe. We're out there -- exploring the solar system and beyond
Technology Drives Exploration
NASA's transformative capabilities and cutting-edge technologies are being developed, tested and flown today. We're the onramp for new space technologies and we have created a pipeline that matures them from early-stage through flight.