B contract, before hitching lift back to Earth with ESA NASA says it needs until 2026 before making a final decision on how the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission will work.… During a briefing on ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return program is designed to do just what its name suggests ... use a sophisticated robotic arm (or perhaps robotic drones like NASA's Ingenuity Mars helictoper) to collect the ...

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...

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

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS Recent exceptional rock discoveries have only mounted pressure on NASA to solve the problems facing its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of ...

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

Dozens of samples of rock and sediment collected from Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned to Earth as soon as 2035 and as late as 2039, depending on the course ...

"If they want to have a Mars sample return, which I can't imagine that they don't, I don't think we want the only sample return coming back on a Chinese spacecraft." He called a planned Chinese ...

NASA proposes a quicker, cost-effective plan to bring Mars samples to Earth by 2030, reducing the mission cost from $11 billion to around $7 billion.

NASA's Mars Sample Return program is designed to do just what ... use a sophisticated robotic arm (or perhaps robotic drones like NASA's Ingenuity Mars helictoper) to collect the samples from ...