NASA is considering two ways to get its precious Mars samples back to Earth but won't pick a winner for another 18 months or ...
To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity ...
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA will spend the next year and a half studying two different approaches for returning samples from Mars, one leveraging technologies used on previous Mars missions and the other new ...
Dozens of samples collected from missions on Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned as ...
The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.
Either change in the mission's design could reduce ... that rocket — and the lander bringing it down to the surface — lighter and smaller. Aerojet Rocketdyne went a step farther, urging NASA to reduce ...
On this date in 1999, the Mars Polar Lander approached the Martian surface to high of speed for NASA engineers to correct ...
The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt, which will begin its spacecraft development phase, is expected to last a total of 13 years ...