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...

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

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...

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;...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Houston, Texas, opened in 1979 to house geologic samples returned from the Moon by the Apollo program missions to the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972....

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

sample return". www.thespacereview.com. 2020-04-27. Retrieved 2020-05-24. "ExoMars 2022". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2020-11-21. "ExoMars Mission...

CHRONogy) is a proposed lunar sample-return mission that would retrieve samples of the youngest lunar mare basalt. This robotic mission was proposed in July 2019...

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...

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 proposed to the...

Science Missions (2017). The National Academies Press. page 37 Berger, Eric (21 September 2023). "Independent reviewers find NASA Mars Sample Return plans...