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....

(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...

is a planned lunar sample-return mission and the fourth mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by the Indian...

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...

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...

second sample return mission. The mission will attempt to obtain the first-ever soil and rock samples from the lunar far side and return it to the Earth;...

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...

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...

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...

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

24, 2022). "Update: 2024 Queqiao-2 data relay 2025 Chang'e-6 lunar sample return from far side 2026 Chang'e-7 lunar landing in south pole 2028 Chang'e-8...

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...

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

deployed rovers and returned samples to the Earth. Three rover missions were launched, of which two were successful, and eleven sample return flights were attempted...

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

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...

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

missions collected more data, but no dedicated sample return mission has been performed.[citation needed] The Russian Space Agency launched a sample return...

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...

robotic Moon missions by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The program encompasses lunar orbiters, landers, rovers and sample return spacecraft...

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

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...

– The Gulliver Mission: Sample Return from Deimos" (PDF). Elifritz, T. L. (1 June 2012). "OSIRIS-REx II to Mars — Mars Sample Return from Phobos and...

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

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