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Captured on Oct. 20, during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of 82...
Like boot prints on the Moon, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft left its mark on asteroid Bennu. Now, new images — taken...
Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong works with an Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container during a two-and-a-half-hour...
A new chapter of Mars exploration has officially begun! Yesterday, NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed on...
What has NASA's Perseverance rover accomplished since landing on the surface of Mars in February 2021? Surface...
Scientists in the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center...
In this illustration, NASA's Mars 2020 rover uses its drill to core a rock sample on Mars. Scheduled to launch in...
On October 11, 2023, NASA’s Johnson Space Center hosted an event to provide a first look at the first asteroid...
NASA’s Genesis mission has completed the capture of solar-wind particles in its specially designed collector arrays....
A model Sample Recovery Helicopter drives and positions itself over a sample tube during a test in the Mars Yard at...
Space Station crew returns safely to Earth, practice for our asteroid sample return mission, and a new discovery...
This illustration depicts three different of models of NASA's solar-powered Mars helicopter. In the upper right is...
On February 21, 1972, Luna 20 soft landed in the rugged highlands between Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Crisium. The...
S87-35313 (15 May 1987)--- This artist's rendering illustrates a Mars Sample Return mission under study at Jet...
This annotated image from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows its wheel tracks in Jezero Crater and a distant view...
iss055e043245 (April 30, 2018) --- NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold transfers frozen biological samples from science...
jsc2018e076655 (Aug. 23, 2018) --- Vice President Mike Pence visited NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Aug....
jsc2018e076652 (Aug. 23, 2018) --- Vice President Mike Pence visited NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Aug....
This image shows two locations in Mars's Jezero Crater where NASA's Perseverance rover collected rock samples for...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover dropped the last of 10 tubes at the "Three Forks" sample depot on Jan. 28, 2023, the...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Stardust spacecraft is ready for the sample return capsule to be...
The first stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket is in position on the mobile tower (at right) at Launch Complex 17. At...
Brian Muirhead, Pre-project Manager of Mars Sample Return at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is seen during a...
Brian Muirhead, Pre-project Manager of Mars Sample Return at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is seen during a...