Editing Discovery Program (section)

=== Discovery 13 and 14 ===
[[File:NASA NEXT Ion thruster.712983main NEXT LDT Thrusterhi-res full.jpg|thumb|NASA made ion thruster technology available for proposals for the thirteenth Discovery Program mission.<ref name="fp">{{cite web |first=Van |last=Kane |url=https://futureplanets.blogspot.com/2014/02/boundaries-for-next-discovery-mission.html |title=Boundaries for the Next Discovery Mission Selection |publisher=Future Planets |date=February 20, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307163947/http://futureplanets.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/boundaries-for-next-discovery-mission.html |archive-date=March 7, 2014}}</ref>]]
{{main|Selection of Discovery Mission 13 and 14}}

In February 2014, NASA released a Discovery Program 'Draft Announcement of Opportunity' for launch readiness date of December 31, 2021.<ref>{{cite news |title=NASA Discovery Program Draft Announcement of Opportunity |date=February 19, 2014 |publisher=SpaceRef |url=http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=45337 |work=[[Science Mission Directorate|NASA Science Mission Directorate]] |access-date=February 22, 2014 |archive-date=February 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140222205001/http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=45337 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The final AO was released on November 5, 2014, and on September 30, 2015, NASA selected five mission concepts as finalists,<ref>{{cite web |author=Stephen Clark |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2015/10/05/nasa-might-pick-two-discovery-missions-but-at-a-price/ |title=NASA might pick two Discovery missions, but at a price |publisher=Spaceflight Now |access-date=January 11, 2016}}</ref><ref name="selection 1st round">{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Dwayne C. |last2=Cantillo |first2=Laurie |url=http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-investigations-for-future-key-planetary-mission |title=NASA Selects Investigations for Future Key Planetary Mission |work=NASA News |location=Washington, D.C. |date=September 30, 2015 |access-date=October 1, 2015}}</ref> each received $3 million for one-year of further study and concept refinement.<ref name="laser2015">{{cite news |last=Clark |first=Stephen |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2015/02/24/nasa-receives-proposals-for-new-planetary-science-mission/ |title=NASA receives proposals for new planetary science mission |work=Space Flight Now |date=February 24, 2014 |access-date=February 25, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Kane |first=Van |url=http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/van-kane/20141201-selecting-the-next-creative-discovery-mission.html |title=Selecting the Next Creative Idea for Exploring the Solar System |work=Planetary Society |date=December 2, 2014 |access-date=February 10, 2015}}</ref>

*[[DAVINCI (spacecraft)|Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging]] (DAVINCI)
*[[VERITAS (spacecraft)|Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR Topography and Spectroscopy]] (VERITAS)
*[[Near-Earth Object Camera]] (NEOCam)
*[[Lucy (spacecraft)|''Lucy'']]
*[[Psyche (spacecraft)|''Psyche'']]

On January 4, 2017, '''''[[Lucy (spacecraft)|Lucy]]''''' and '''''[[Psyche (spacecraft)|Psyche]]''''' were selected for the 13th and 14th Discovery missions, respectively and launched on 16 October 2021 and 13 October 2023, respectively.<ref name=nasataps /><ref name="nasaselectslucypsyche">{{cite news |url=https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-two-missions-to-explore-the-early-solar-system/|title=NASA Selects Two Missions to Explore the Early Solar System|date=January 4, 2017 |access-date=January 4, 2017}}</ref> ''Lucy'' will fly by five [[Jupiter trojan]]s, [[asteroid]]s which share Jupiter's [[orbit]] around the [[Sun]], orbiting either ahead of or behind the planet.<ref name="NYT-20170106">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/science/nasa-psyche-asteroid.html |title=A Metal Ball the Size of Massachusetts That NASA Wants to Explore |work=[[The New York Times]] |last=Chang |first=Kenneth |date=January 6, 2017 |access-date=January 7, 2017}}</ref><ref name="nasaselectslucypsyche" /> ''Psyche'' will explore the origin of [[planetary core]]s by orbiting and studying the metallic asteroid [[16 Psyche]].<ref name="NYT-20170106" />