Who’s in? Lockheed Martin, the only company that has built a spacecraft to successfully land on Mars, will perform "rapid mission design studies for Mars Sample Return," according to NASA ...

LAS VEGAS — Companies selected by NASA to study alternative approaches to Mars Sample Return (MSR) have offered glimpses of their work that range from tweaking one component to overhauling the ...

The study proposes using Rocket Lab’s vertically integrated technologies to retrieve samples from the Red Planet for the first time in history as part of NASA’s Mars Sample Return Program.