The Mars Sample Return mission represents one of the most ambitious and scientifically valuable endeavors in NASA’s history. For the mission to be successful, NASA requires innovative and reliable industry partners. Our MSR mission is designed to put Ma
While respondents were generally favourable towards a Mars sample return mission, and largely unworried by possible risks, they did have concerns about the use of plutonium for electrical propulsion and were somewhat ill-informed about the issues....
You can read more about NASA's National Environmental Policy Act process and the proposed NASA-ESA Mars sample return program here and here, respectively. If you have anything you'd like to say about Mars sample return, either pro or con, you can log it in the Federal Register, but you...
NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) recently reached some major milestones in support of the Mars Sample Return program. The Mars Ascent Vehicle would be the first launch of a rocket from the surface of another planet. The team developing MAV conducted successful tests of the first and second ...
"But I think it was a responsible thing to do, not to hand a new administration just one alternative," Nelson said. "If they want to have a Mars sample return, which I can't imagine that they don't, I don't think we want the only sample return coming back on a Chinese spacecraf...
"But I think it was a responsible thing to do, not to hand a new administration just one alternative," Nelson said. "If they want to have a Mars sample return, which I can't imagine that they don't, I don't think we want the only sample return coming back on a Chinese spacecraf...
NASA Calls in Expert Panel to Review Mars Sample Return Plans April 15, 2023 The board, initiated by NASA, will provide added confidence that the program won’t exceed guidelines… Space NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Shows Off Collection of Martian Samples in Stunning Panorama February 15, ...
Similarly to the Soviet lunar exploration program, the Martian sample return mission would be preceded to the Red Planet by the 4NM rover in 1973. However both missions had to be ultimately postponed and scaled down, because the N1 rocket never "learned to fly." To fit the mission, renamed...
Facing budgetary pressure for its Mars Sample Return program, NASA has turned to private industry for ideas—perhaps with one specific company in mind
NASA’s Perseverance rover is currently trundling across the surface of Mars, gathering specially selected samples of rock for return to Earth in the coming years by the ambitious Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. Bringing the samples to Earth will allow scientists to analyze the materials using...