Enduring Quests and Daring Visions is a vision for astrophysics programs chartered by then-Director of NASA's Astrophysics Division, Paul Hertz, and released in late 2013. It lays out plans over 30 years as long-term goals and missions. Goals include mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background and finding Earth like exoplanets, to go deeper into space-time studying the Large Scale Structure of the Universe, extreme physics, and looking back further in time. The panel that produced the vision featured many notable American astrophysicists, including: Chryssa Kouveliotou, Eric Agol, Natalie Batalha, Misty Bentz, Alan Dressler, Scott Gaudi, Olivier Guyon, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, Feryal Ozel, Aki Roberge, Amber Straughn, and Joan Centrella. Examples of discussed missions include:
Astro-H (Hitomi) Black Hole Mapper CMB Polarization Surveyor Cosmic Dawn Euclid ExoEarth Mapper Gaia Gravitational Wave Surveyor/Mapper Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx) Far-Infrared Surveyor (later renamed the Origins Space Telescope) JEM-EUSO James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) X-Ray Surveyor (later renamed the Lynx X-ray Observatory)
References
External links Enduring Quests and Daring Visions (NASA) (.pdf)