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<\/a><\/figure>NASA is supporting the Genesis Mission, a national effort to drive the use of artificial intelligence in tackling complex scientific and engineering challenges to advance a new era of discovery.<\/p>\n
President Donald J. Trump issued the Executive Order \u201cLaunching the Genesis Mission\u201d on Nov. 24, 2025, creating a national mission to leverage artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery. The mission is led by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and has now expanded to more than 15 federal agencies in a whole-of-government initiative. NASA is exploring how its missions, data, and expertise can support National Science and Technology challenges and help develop the powerful AI tools envisioned under the Genesis Mission, opening the door to faster breakthroughs, new knowledge, and discoveries that benefit the American people and help unlock some of the world\u2019s greatest mysteries.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerica has invested for generations in the data, missions, and technical expertise that make NASA one of the world\u2019s greatest engines of discovery,\u201d said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. \u201cThe Genesis Mission is an opportunity to turn that foundation into faster science, stronger engineering, and better mission outcomes. Leveraging our relationships with interagency counterparts, NASA can advance AI tools that accelerate exploration, strengthen American leadership in space, and open new paths to understanding our planet and the universe. Likewise, NASA is committed to applying our research and development to other initiatives within government for the benefit of American taxpayers.\u201d<\/p>\n
NASA introduced new Genesis Mission National Science and Technology Challenges that center on two major priorities: strengthening America\u2019s superiority in space and igniting a new era of innovation driven by more than 70 years of science and engineering by the agency.<\/p>\n
To operate safely in a space environment that is growing more crowded and dynamic each year, and to maintain America\u2019s leadership in space, NASA must develop advanced systems faster than traditional engineering methods allow. These systems must work together reliably across spacecraft, communications, logistics, surface operations, and other mission capabilities.\u00a0By combining NASA\u2019s mission expertise with the Department of Energy\u2019s computing and AI capabilities, the Genesis Mission can shorten the path from concept to operational readiness and strengthen America\u2019s ability to operate and lead in space.<\/p>\n
NASA also will explore how AI can unlock new discoveries from more than 150 petabytes of data collected across decades of missions and research. NASA\u2019s telescopes, satellites, orbiters, landers, and aeronautics programs have produced an extraordinary record of Earth, the solar system, and the universe, but the scale and complexity of these archives make it difficult to examine every observation using traditional methods. Advanced AI tools could help scientists connect data from different missions, instruments, simulations, and fields of study, identify patterns that might otherwise remain hidden, improve predictions, and reveal new discoveries in data that may have already been studied. By turning NASA\u2019s mission archives into engines of discovery, the Genesis Mission can expand the return on generations of American investment in space and strengthen research across a wide range of scientific fields.<\/p>\n
As the Genesis Mission advances, NASA remains dedicated to harnessing its decades of scientific and mission data and engineering capabilities to accelerate new innovations and discovery.<\/p>\n
For more information about NASA\u2019s missions, visit:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.nasa.gov<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n -end-<\/p>\n George Alderman \/ Elizabeth Shaw
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