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Following more than four hours in Earth orbit, NASA's Orion spacecraft is seen from an unpiloted aircraft as it...
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub closed the hatches of their...
This illustration depicts the Mars Earth Entry System for the Mars Sample Return campaign. The system would contain...
During its flight and lunar orbit, NASA’s Clementine spacecraft returned images of the planet Earth and the Moon....
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) is the...
This image shows a concept model of NASA's orbiting sample container, which will hold tubes of Martian rock and soil...
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina...
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina...
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina...
Artist rendering of NASA Stardust capsule returning to Earth. The Stardust spacecraft will bring back samples of...
This picture shows one prototype for hardware to cache samples of cores drilled from Martian rocks for possible...
Luna 16 was the first robotic mission to land on the Moon on basaltic plains of Mare Fecunditatis and return a...
One crucial step in NASA Mars sample return mission would be to launch the collected sample away from the surface of...
Teams across multiple NASA centers and the European Space Agency are working together to prepare a set of missions...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is filling sample tubes with rocky material on the Red Planet as the agency works on...
NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman exits the side of a mockup of the Orion spacecraft during a...
Orion splashes down in the Pacific Ocean after Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 5, 2014. Part of Batch...
Orion splashes down in the Pacific Ocean after Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 5, 2014. Part of Batch...
Orion splashes down in the Pacific Ocean after Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 5, 2014. Part of Batch...
Orion splashes down in the Pacific Ocean after Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 5, 2014. Part of Batch...
This illustration shows a concept for a proposed NASA Mars lander-and-rocket combination that would play a key role...
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Russian spaceflight participants Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko...
NASA's latest New Frontiers mission, OSIRIS-REx, will venture to a near-Earth asteroid to discover clues about the...
This graphic details the makeup of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. Falcon 9 is the launch vehicle SpaceX uses for all...