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...

A sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission to collect and return samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis. Sample-return missions...

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...

sample return mission, one of the latest known as Martian Moon Sample Return or MMSR, and it may use heritage from an asteroid sample return mission....

shifted to robotic sample return missions, the American Apollo program proceeded successfully, with Apollo 8 becoming the first crewed mission to enter lunar...

robotic lunar exploration mission by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the second CNSA lunar sample-return mission. Like its predecessors...

missions to Mars's moons, or flyby missions. Many Mars mission concepts propose precursor missions to the moons of Mars, for example a sample return mission...

1999. Its primary mission was to collect dust samples from the coma of comet Wild 2, as well as samples of cosmic dust, and return them to Earth for analysis...

Chandra, "Moon" and yāna, "craft, vehicle") is a planned lunar sample return mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the fourth...

return a sample of lunar soil back to Earth. It represented the first lunar sample return mission by the Soviet Union, and was the third lunar sample...

(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) via...

NASA sample-return probe that collected a sample of solar wind particles and returned them to Earth for analysis. It was the first NASA sample-return mission...

of soil or rock exposed on the surface) was an attempted Russian sample return mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. Fobos-Grunt also carried the...

uncrewed 1970 space mission, part of the Soviet Luna program. It was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample of lunar soil to Earth...

The 24th mission of the Luna series of spacecraft, the mission of the Luna 24 probe was the third Soviet mission to return lunar soil samples from the...

additional information for future lunar missions and demonstrate the mission operation strategies for a sample return mission. In order to continue SHAPE payload...

fifth lunar exploration mission in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program of CNSA, and China's first lunar sample-return mission. Like its predecessors...

had visited asteroids before, but the Hayabusa mission was the first one to return an asteroid sample to Earth for analysis. In addition, Hayabusa was...

surface after the United States. Future missions, including near-Earth asteroid sample return, Mars sample return and Jupiter system exploration, have been...

Laboratory (PRL), LUPEX will serve as a precursor to planned lunar sample-return mission Chandrayaan-4. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) signed...

called Mars Orbiter Mission 2 (MOM-2 or Mangalyaan-2) in 2024. "The Space Review: Taking on the challenge of Mars sample return". www.thespacereview...

Mars missions collected more data, but no dedicated sample return mission has been successfully performed. The Russian Space Agency launched a sample return...

Chang'e 6 sample-return mission was launched on May 3, 2024, landed in the Apollo basin in the southern hemisphere of the lunar far side and returned to Earth...

Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return) is a sample-return mission concept to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The mission was proposed in 2017 to NASA's...

lunar mission launched on 23 October 2014 Chang'e 5, a lunar sample-return mission, launched on 23 November 2020 Chang'e 6, a second lunar sample-return mission...

conducted the first lunar sample return from the far side of the Moon. This is China's second lunar sample return mission, the first being achieved by...

asteroid-study and sample-return mission that visited and collected samples from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid. The material, returned in September...

asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA. It is a successor to the Hayabusa mission, which returned asteroid samples for...

carrying the Sample Return Capsule back to Earth, arriving in 2031. Phobos program Fobos-Grunt Mars sample-return mission "Phobos sample return mission enters...

to begin a NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign, a four-mission project to cache, retrieve, launch, and safely return samples of the Martian surface to...