The second will utilize new commercial capabilities and partners to deliver a “heavy-lift vehicle” lander, such as designs ...

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity ...

This achieved the “softest” landing for any Mars lander, the primary goal for a human landing on ... This allows the team to focus only on EDL methods and technologies. The result is the design of an ...

On this date in 1999, the Mars Polar Lander approached the Martian surface to high of speed for NASA engineers to correct ...

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through a mission proposal that is less expensive ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

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 ...

NASA has announced an overhaul to its plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth. Agency officials have decided to scrap ...

Dozens of samples collected from missions on Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned as ...

The US$2.7-billion Perseverance rover collected the samples looking for evidence of past life, but NASA is dithering about ...

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

Alternatively, they could pick a heavy lander devised by existing ... NASA said it was seeking innovative designs to return valuable samples from Mars to Earth. “Such samples will not only ...