In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch date, NASA put out a request for alternative proposals to all of its ...

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

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 ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

NASA has two options for bringing rock and sediment samples from Mars to Earth, but will let the incoming Trump administration decide which course to take. An independent review board found that ...

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 ...