NASA names investigations for future planetary missions →

DC Agle, writing on the JPL blog:

NASA has selected five science investigations for refinement during the next year as a first step in choosing one or two missions for flight opportunities as early as 2020. Three of those chosen have ties to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The submitted proposals would study Venus, near-Earth objects and a variety of asteroids.

One or two of these will be funded for future missions. I think I’m partial to the VERITAS and NEOCam missions myself.