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A Full-Size Footpad Test

This setup is being used at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to test a 16-inch-diameter (40-centimeter-diameter)...

Going Over the Footpad Test Data

Patrick DeGrosse and fellow engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory review data from a recent test of a...

Testing Mars Sample Return

2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge

A team KuuKulgur Robot from Estonia is seen on the practice field during the 2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample...

2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge

James Leopore, of team Fetch, from Alexandria, Virginia, speaks with judges as he prepares for the NASA 2014 Sample...

2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge

A pair of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) students walk past a pair of team KuuKulgur's robots on the campus...

2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge

The University of Waterloo Robotics Team, from Ontario, Canada, prepares their robot for the 2014 NASA Centennial...

2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge

The Stellar Automation Systems team poses for a picture with their robot after attempting the level one challenge...

2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge

Kenneth Stafford, Assistant Director of Robotics Engineering and Director of the Robotics Resource Center at the...

Creating a Returnable Cache of Martian Samples

This picture shows one prototype for hardware to cache samples of cores drilled from Martian rocks for possible...

Sample Asteroid Bennu in 360

NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, will make a daring attempt to “TAG” asteroid Bennu on Oct....

2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge

The Oregon State University Mars Rover Team poses for a picture with their robot following their attempt at the...

2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge

The Oregon State University Mars Rover Team, from Corvallis, Oregon, follows their robot on the practice field...

2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge

The University of California Santa Cruz Rover Team poses for a picture with their robot after attempting the level...

2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge

Jerry Waechter of team Middleman from Dunedin, Florida, works on their robot named Ro-Bear during the 2014 NASA...

2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge

The Oregon State University Mars Rover Team follows their robot on the practice field during the 2014 NASA...

To Bennu and Back

NASA's latest New Frontiers mission, OSIRIS-REx, will venture to a near-Earth asteroid to discover clues about the...

OSIRIS-REx Departure from Bennu Trailer

At approximately 4:16 p.m. EDT on May 10th, 2021, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification,...

Sample Return Capsule Landing Artist Concept

Artist rendering of NASA Stardust capsule returning to Earth. The Stardust spacecraft will bring back samples of...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Approaches Asteroid Bennu

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission launched in 2016 and now (August, 2018) is entering its approach...

NASAs Asteroid Heist: The Challenges of TAG

NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, will make a daring attempt to “TAG” asteroid Bennu on Oct....

OSIRIS-REx Sample Return

Recovery team members load a container with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission onto a C-17...

OSIRIS-REx Sample Return

Recovery and curation teams join a container with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission aboard a C-17...

OSIRIS-REx Sample Return

Recovery team members load a container with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission onto a C-17...