Enduring Quests and Daring Visions

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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.{{cite web|url=http://moonandback.com/2013/12/22/nasa-lays-out-long-term-vision-for-astrophysics/|title=NASA Lays Out Long-term Vision for Astrophysics - Moonandback|date=2013-12-22|website=moonandback.com|access-date=2014-01-18|archive-date=2019-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618115916/http://moonandback.com/2013/12/22/nasa-lays-out-long-term-vision-for-astrophysics/|url-status=dead}} 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,{{cite web|url=https://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2013/12/05/secure-Kouveliotou_-_astrophysics_roadmap.pdf|title=Astrophysics Roadmap|website=nasa.gov|access-date=2017-07-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305014101/http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2013/12/05/secure-Kouveliotou_-_astrophysics_roadmap.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-05|url-status=dead}} to go deeper into space-time studying the Large Scale Structure of the Universe, extreme physics, and looking back farther in time. The panel that produced the vision included 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:{{cite web|url=http://www.universetoday.com/108227/enduring-quests-and-daring-visions-nasa-lays-out-a-roadmap-for-astrophysics/#more-108227|title=Enduring Quests and Daring Visions: NASA Lays Out a Roadmap for Astrophysics - Universe Today|last=Hall|first=Shannon|date=17 January 2014|website=universetoday.com}}

• 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)