  With the Large Hadron Collider entering its third year of granting us insight
into the highest collision energies to date, one should nevertheless keep in
mind the unexplored physics potential of lower energies. A prime example here
is the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. Using its
large-acceptance hadronic spectrometer, SHINE aims to accomplish a number of
physics goals: measuring spectra of identified hadrons in hadron-nucleus
collisions to provide reference for accelerator neutrino experiments and
cosmic-ray observatories, investigating particle properties in the large
transverse-momentum range for hadron+hadron and hadron+nucleus collisions for
studying the nuclear modification factor at SPS energies, and measuring
hadronic observables in a particularly interesting region of the phase diagram
of strongly-interacting matter to study the onset of deconfinement and search
for the critical point of strongly-interacting matter with nucleus-nucleus
collisions. This contribution shall summarise results obtained so far by
NA61/SHINE, as well as present the current status and plans of its experimental
programme.
