[{"n": "Sample-return mission", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/sample-return-mission/", "s": "Spacecraft missions that collect and return extraterrestrial samples to Earth."}, {"n": "Mars sample-return mission", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/mars-sample-return-mission/", "s": "Bringing Mars to Earth: the ultimate sample return challenge."}, {"n": "CAESAR (spacecraft)", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/caesar-spacecraft/", "s": "A sample-return mission concept to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, proposed for NASA's New Frontiers program."}, {"n": "Chang'e 5", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/chang-e-5/", "s": "China's first lunar sample-return mission, launched in 2020."}, {"n": "Chang'e 6", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/chang-e-6/", "s": "First mission to return samples from the Moon's far side."}, {"n": "Comet Nucleus Dust and Organics Return", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/comet-nucleus-dust-and-organics-return/", "s": "A mission concept to retrieve a pristine sample from comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko."}, {"n": "Comet Rendezvous, Sample Acquisition, Investigation, and Return", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/comet-rendezvous-sample-acquisition-investigation-and-return/", "s": "A concept mission to return comet nucleus samples to Earth for detailed analysis."}, {"n": "Extraterrestrial sample curation", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/extraterrestrial-sample-curation/", "s": "Preserving sample integrity and protecting Earth from extraterrestrial biohazards."}, {"n": "Hayabusa", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/hayabusa/", "s": "First asteroid sample return mission"}, {"n": "ISOCHRON (spacecraft)", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/isochron-spacecraft/", "s": "Proposed lunar sample-return mission for young mare basalt."}, {"n": "Luna 20", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/luna-20/", "s": "Second successful Soviet lunar sample return mission, returning 55 grams of highlands soil."}, {"n": "Luna 24", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/luna-24/", "s": "Last Soviet lunar sample return mission until China's Chang'e 5 in 2020"}, {"n": "Luna E-8-5 No. 402", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/luna-e-8-5-no-402/", "s": "Soviet lunar sample return spacecraft lost in 1969 launch failure."}, {"n": "Luna-Glob", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/luna-glob/", "s": "Russia's robotic path to a lunar base."}, {"n": "Marco Polo (spacecraft)", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/marco-polo-spacecraft/", "s": "A proposed ESA-JAXA mission concept to return a sample from a Near-Earth asteroid, rejected four times for the"}, {"n": "Mars-Grunt", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/mars-grunt/", "s": "A proposed Russian robotic mission to return Mars soil samples to Earth."}, {"n": "Martian Moons eXploration", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/martian-moons-exploration/", "s": "Japan's MMX mission to bring back the first samples from Mars' moon Phobos."}, {"n": "MoonRise", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/moonrise/", "s": "A proposed sample return mission to the Moon's South Pole–Aitken basin."}, {"n": "Next Generation Small-Body Sample Return", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/next-generation-small-body-sample-return/", "s": "Proposed JAXA mission to return samples from comet 289P/Blanpain."}, {"n": "OKEANOS", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/okeanos/", "s": "A proposed Japanese mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids using a hybrid solar sail and ion engine, with an op"}, {"n": "Stardust (spacecraft)", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/stardust-spacecraft/", "s": "NASA's first sample return mission to collect comet and cosmic dust."}, {"n": "Tianwen-2", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/tianwen-2/", "s": "China's second planetary mission to sample an asteroid and explore a comet."}, {"n": "Tianwen-3", "u": "/e/sample-return-missions/tianwen-3/", "s": "China's planned Mars sample-return mission, targeting launch in 2028 and return by 2031."}]