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    A Mars sample-return (MSR) mission is a proposed mission to collect rock and dust samples on Mars and return them to Earth. Such a mission would allow...
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    The NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return is a proposed Flagship-class Mars sample return (MSR) mission to collect Martian rock and soil samples in 43 small, cylindrical...
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    A sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission to collect and return samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis. Sample-return missions...
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    Mars 4NM and Mars 5NM – projects intended by the Soviet Union for heavy Marsokhod (in 1973 according to initial plan of 1970) and Mars sample return (planned...
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    Mars mission concepts propose precursor missions to the moons of Mars, for example a sample return mission to the Mars moon Phobos – not quite Mars,...
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  • (end-to-end) Mars sample return program. Mars Sample Return: Issues and Recommendations (Planetary Protection Office Summary) Task Group on Issues in Sample Return...
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  • Tianwen-3 (category Missions to Mars)
    (Chinese: 天问三号) is a planned Mars sample-return mission by China which would send two spacecraft (an orbiter/Earth-returner and a lander/ascent-vehicle)...
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    will load these samples onto the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), which, in accordance with the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return program, will deliver them to low...
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  • Mars-Grunt, also known as Expedition-M (Russian: Марс-Грунт), is a robotic Mars sample return mission proposed to be sent to Mars in mid-2020s. It was...
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    with design of any Mars sample return receiving facility. Design criteria for a proposed Mars Sample Return Facility, and for the return mission, have been...
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