The return of Mars samples to Earth is among the most ambitious goals of the spaceflight programs of the National Air and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Preparing for ...

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The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

How will NASA conduct its Mars Sample Return (MSR) Program? This is what the renowned space agency recently discussed as it unveiled two potential landing options for MSR with the goal of determining ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already ...

But then something changed. The Mars Sample Return mission, as it's called for now, is a very complex endeavor. It requires a vehicle on the surface of Mars to collect the soil samples and store ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race ...

The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already gearing up for its first big announcement, this one about the agency's ambitious, yet beleaguered, Mars sample return mission. Today (Jan. 7), ...