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The esteemed Crank o' the Day for 2026 Feb 06:
NASA's Origins Program
2000 Feb 05
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"Have you looked at the night sky and asked yourself where did all this come from? How did we get here? Our generation is privileged -- if we accept the challenge -- to have the opportunity to answer these timeless questions asked around the ancient campfires and in the contemporary classrooms today. NASA's Origins Program will search for clues to help us find our cosmic roots including answer to questions such as: How did the first galaxies form? How do stars and planetary systems form? Are there any planets outside our solar system that are capable of sustaining life? How did life originate on Earth? Is there life (however primitive or evolved) outside our solar system? Over the course of the next two decades, the Origins program will utilize the best minds in academia, industry and NASA to develop the technologies that will enable putting in space a succession of sophisticated telescopes each building on scientific and technological achievements of the prior missions. Augmented with ground-based observatories and research and analysis, NASA's Origins program will give our civilization a better sense of the universe around us and our place in it."
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