One of the first men to orbit the Moon has told BBC Radio 5 Live that it's "stupid" to plan manned missions ... are still exploring Mars. Last month the InSight lander, which will sample the ...

Twenty years before Neil Armstrong uttered his memorable words on the Moon about one small step for man but a giant leap for ...

Last year, the agency said it was revising plans for the mission due to the estimated cost and long wait time for the samples' return journey to Earth. Mars Sample Retrieval Lander Concept ...

And if the Trump administration moves forward with Mars Sample Return (MSR), what will it look like? Could it involve a human mission ... commercial heavy lander, but this concept would still ...

(The baseline MAV/lander concept was too large ... who heads NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Perseverance's samples may therefore not be the first pristine Mars material to come to Earth.

The European-led Mars lander is approaching the Red Planet as part of the ExoMars mission between the European Space Agency and Russia's Roscosmos. The lander will be searching for signs of alien ...

The mission's next steps would be the launch of the Sample Retrieval Lander to Mars, carrying with it a rocket and two helicopters to assist in the retrieval. Perseverance would carry the samples ...

Related: NASA wants new ideas for its troubled Mars Sample Return mission NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of ...