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One of NASA’s biggest space missions is in deep trouble. The Mars Sample Return mission is currently on track to be one of the biggest undertakings the space agency has ever attempted ...

NASA is smoothing out the final details of its future program to bring back treasured martian samples, also known as the Mars Sample Return Program, and its new helicopters might make future ...

See how the Sample Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return mission will work in this animation. Credit: ESA/NASA ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has been on the prowl within Jezero Crater, a site on the Red Planet that eons ago harbored a ...

With the roughly 20-day wide launch window for the Mars 2020 mission rapidly ... already within the titanium sample tube in which it will remain until the sample return mission.

The plan would significantly overhaul flagship programs ... It would also cancel the Mars Sample Return mission, a joint project with the European Space Agency to bring back rock samples collected ...

China’s simpler "grab-and-go" mission, targeting a 2028 launch, could return Mars samples years ahead of NASA, adding urgency to the U.S. effort. Revised plans estimate costs of $5.8–$7.7 ...