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

After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost up to $11 billion, NASA "pulled the plug" and is focusing on two options ...

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 ...

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

The goal of the Mars Sample Return Program, which is being planned ... carrying a NASA-led Mars rocket and small Mars helicopters. JPL-Caltech/NASA At the time, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson ...

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.

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

For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding to develop a ...

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 ...

The orbiters, rovers, landers, and helicopters of Mars all bear Rocket Lab’s fingerprints. We can deliver MSR mission success too.” The Mars Sample Return mission, a joint NASA and European ...