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...

Roscosmos proposal, Mars-Grunt; and a JAXA proposal, Martian Moons eXploration (MMX). Although NASA and ESA's plans to return the samples to Earth are still...

2020s. NASA and ESA have long planned a Mars Sample-Return Mission. The Perseverance rover, deployed in 2020, is collecting drill core samples and stashing...

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...

Ambitious Mission To Mars In 2022". Forbes. Retrieved 31 August 2021. Foust, Jeff (21 September 2023). "NASA Mars Sample Return budget and schedule "unrealistic...

biosignatures and biomolecules. There is also a proposal for a Mars Sample Return Mission by ESA and NASA, which would launch in 2024 or later. This mission would...

cache sample containers along its route for retrieval by a potential future Mars sample-return mission. The Mars 2020 mission was announced by NASA in December...

2020, completed – first powered flight on Mars EscaPADE, launching August 2024, future NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return, launching 2027 and 2028, future Pioneer...

(landed on Mars in Aug 2012) has a budget exceeding $2.5 billion. NASA also has goals of collaborating with the European Space Agency (ESA) in order to...

back samples from moons of Mars". The Japan Times. 10 June 2015. Clark, Stephen (20 November 2017). "NASA confirms contribution to Japanese-led Mars mission"...