  NA61/SHINE is a fixed target experiment at the CERN Super-Proton-
Synchrotron. The main goals of the experiment are to discover the critical
point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of
deconfnement. In order to reach these goals the collaboration studies hadron
production properties in nucleus-nucleus, proton-proton and proton-nucleus
interactions. In this talk, recent results on particle production in p+p
interactions, as well as Be+Be and Ar+Sc collisions in the SPS energy range are
reviewed. The results are compared with available world data. The future of the
NA61/SHINE scientifc program is also presented.
