Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA’s imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little longer. The agency has settled on two potential strategies for the first ...

Initially slated for 2026, the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission was lambasted ... The country said in its announcement of the latest launch date that it plans to cooperate with other nations ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme ... Perserverance and store them in a rocket that would then launch into orbit. Another spacecraft, provided by the European ...

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

Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth ... that they may also launch by 2030. “I don’t think we want the only sample return coming back on the Chinese ...

After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return ... sample recovery and a powerful solid-fuel rocket to launch the collected samples to orbit. Once in Mars ...

This two-stage, solid-fuel rocket would then launch like a surface-to-air missile and carry the samples into Mars's orbit. From there, a European Space Agency spacecraft called the Earth Return ...

With the roughly 20-day wide launch ... sample return mission. The bit carousel, which transitions bits and samples from vertical to horizontal with just a single axis of rotation. Source: Mars ...

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 ... in a rocket ...

China, for example, plans to launch its own sample return mission to Mars in 2028 with the goal of returning those samples to Earth in 2031. So, NASA isn't alone in its race to collect samples of ...