Boeing has put forward its own idea to help NASA get its Mars Sample Return project back on track and on budget. NASA issued a solicitation for new ideas to get scientifically invaluable Martian ...

June 4 (UPI) --NASA officials want a new Mars sample return mission plan that is faster, costs less and isn't as complex than one scrapped in April. The space agency doesn't want to wait until 2040 ...

During a quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, executives at Intuitive Machines revealed their plans to contribute to the Mars Sample Return mission architecture using their lunar technology.

The tubes are a backup collection of rock cores and regolith that could be recovered in the future by the Mars Sample Return campaign, the cost of which continues to rise. Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH ...

The mission to retrieve the samples, called Mars Sample Return (MSR), has already caused NASA huge headaches with costs projected to hit $11 billion and a timetable that an independent review ...

The lead scientist for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is excited about material that has been stored in the rover's sample ...

Intuitive Machines is looking to help reshape the Mars Sample Return mission architecture with its own technology, based on architecture it has been developing for the moon, executives told ...

Boeing is the first company to release details about how it would attempt a Mars Sample Return mission. Its study involves a single flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the super heavy ...

NASA recently asked the scientific community to help come up with innovative ideas for ways to carry out its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. This was in response to a report by an independent ...

A 25-tonne lander and an 11-tonne return vehicle?? Wouldn't it be far more efficient (cheaper!) to have a low-mass lander and ascent vehicle with an orbiter/return vehicle? Even with Mars' lower ...