If NASA doesn't come up with a tighter budget for the mission, Mars Sample Return may not happen.
, which guides NASA's exploration priorities over the next ten years, puts MSR at the top of its list, but according to the Senate report,"the Committee is alarmed that despite Congress providing the full request for this mission in prior years [...
MSR's mission objective is built right into its name – collect samples from the Martian surface and return them for study back on Earth. Throughout the history of spaceflight, only a handful of robotic lunar sample return missions have been successful. Attempting to collect and return material from Mars is an ambitious undertaking that has never been attempted.
The mission is a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency , which will require a robotic lander, a pair of helicopter-like drones similar to the
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