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 mission that would see an ...

The Mars Sample Return ... mission will cost a staggering $11 billion, and it will extend well into the 2040, about a decade later than the most optimistic estimates. Learning this, NASA decided ...

The Perseverance Mars rover has collected a rock sample ... mission complexity. After cost projections rose to $11 billion and the sample return timeline was extended to no earlier than 2040, NASA ...

NASA called this particular sample collection “an important milestone in our mission to uncover the geological history of Jezero Crater.” It also marks a return to full-time exploration by ...

In this photo provided by NASA, the sample return capsule from NASA's Osiris ... said the University of Arizona’s Dante Lauretta, the mission’s chief scientist who took part in both studies.

It also pushed the expected sample return between 2031 and 2040, a delay considered ... Nicky Fox, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, explained, “We are exploring ...

We can deliver MSR mission success too.” The Mars Sample Return mission, a joint NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) program, would mark the first time samples from another planet have been ...

However, NASA has already identified a few problems with the Mars Sample Return ... of the mission out past even the "unacceptably too long" original target date of 2040. With that in mind ...

Rover's mission aims to discover signs of ancient microbial life and understand Mars' geological history, with sample return expected between 2035 and 2039. NASA Perseverance rover has just marked ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the ... as well as more asteroid and comet sample returns. China plans to launch an asteroid sample return mission this year.Many are pushing for ...