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NASA Office of Communications Senior Science Communications Officer Karen Fox introduces, from left to right, NASA...
This artist concept of a proposed NASA and European Space Agency collaboration on proposals for a Mars sample return...
This artist concept of the proposed NASA Mars Sample Return mission shows the orbiter and lander, just after the...
This illustration shows a concept for a proposed NASA Mars lander-and-rocket combination that would play a key role...
Intrepid Systems Team member Mark Curry, right, answers questions from 8th grade Sullivan Middle School (Mass.)...
Intrepid Systems Team member Mark Curry, left, talks with NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and NASA Chief...
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck stop to look at the bronze statue of...
As part of a Mars sample return mission, a rocket will carry a container of sample tubes with Martian rock and soil...
Our first asteroid sample return mission is back on Earth, a record ride in space for a NASA astronaut, and our...
Lockheed Martin Program Manager Sandy Freund, second from left, answers questions from reporters during an...
Members of the Mountaineers team from West Virginia University celebrate after their robot returned to the starting...
Sample Return Robot Challenge staff members confer before the team Survey robots makes it's attempt at the level two...
Russel Howe of team Survey speaks with Sample Return Robot Challenge staff members after the team's robot failed to...
NASA and the European Space Agency are developing plans for one of the most ambitious campaigns ever attempted in...
A sample can be seen on the competition field as the team Survey robot conducts a demonstration of the level two...
A team KuuKulgur robot approaches the sample as it attempts the level one challenge during the 2014 NASA Centennial...
The team Survey robot retrieves a sample during a demonstration of the level two challenge at the 2014 NASA...
The team Mountaineers robot is seen after picking up the sample during a rerun of the level one challenge at the...
during the 2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge, Thursday, June 12, 2014, at the Worcester...
during the 2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at the Worcester...
After the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission has collected pristine samples of Mars rock and regolith (broken...
This artist's concept shows the proposed Capture, Containment, and Return System, a NASA payload on the European...
NASA Office of Communications Deputy Chief Patrick Lynch, left, introduces, from left to right, NASA Program...
Jia-Rui Cook with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory moderates a Mars 2020 Sample Return briefing at NASA’s Kennedy...