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NASA Chief Scientist, Jim Green, asks Brian Muirhead, Pre-project Manager of Mars Sample Return at NASA’s Jet...
An audience member asks Brian Muirhead, Pre-project Manager of Mars Sample Return at NASA’s Jet Propulsion...
Brian Muirhead, Pre-project Manager of Mars Sample Return at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory answers a question by...
As part of its search for signs of ancient life on Mars, Perseverance is the first rover to bring a sample caching...
ISS030-E-257690 (26 April 2012) --- European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, Expedition 30 flight engineer,...
iss070e005393 (12/182023) --- NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli is shown performing steps to extract and amplify DNA...
Christiane Gumera, right, a student at Stanton College Preparatory High School in Jacksonville, AL, examines a...
OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program. Its goal is to explore near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a...
This map shows where NASA's Perseverance Mars dropped each of its 10 samples so that a future mission could pick...
Commander Steve Swanson harvests plants for the VEG-01 investigation. He is harvesting them on the Maintenance Work...
OSIRIS-REx Project Scientist, Dr. Jason Dworkin of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,...
This photomontage shows each of the sample tubes shortly after they were deposited onto the surface by NASA's...
iss052e058893 (8/18/2017) --- European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Paolo Nespoli collects and processes saliva...
iss052e058815 (8/18/2017) --- European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Paolo Nespoli collects and processes saliva...
iss052e058906 (8/18/2017) --- European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Paolo Nespoli collects and processes saliva...
S75-23543 (April 1972) --- This Apollo 16 lunar sample (moon rock) was collected by astronaut John W. Young,...
iss052e058828(8/18/2017) --- European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Paolo Nespoli collects and processes saliva...
NASA's Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility is home to the most cherished -- and scientifically important -- relics of...
This diagram, superimposed on a photo of Martian landscape, illustrates a concept called "adaptive caching," which...
NASA's Perseverance rover deposited the first of several sample tubes onto the Martian surface on Dec. 21, 2022, the...
Engineers react with surprise while testing how NASA's Perseverance rover will deposit its sample tubes on the...
How will we know if there is life on Mars? What geological clues can our Martian orbiters and rovers search for and...
The next space station crew launching from America, a mission milestone for our next Mars rover, and an update on a...
NASA astronauts share their space station experience, our heavy-duty hauler crawls into the history books, and...