The briefing will present a mission architecture proposal by NASA and the European Space Agency.
announcing the news conference,"recently held a systems requirement review as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign's conceptual design phase — a phase when the architecture is refined and solidified."
The architecture proposal will be finalized in September, if the schedule holds, and the agencies will likely discuss the pathway to approval during the briefing.Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission DirectorateJeff Gramling, director of NASA's Mars Sample Return ProgramArtist's conception for a proposed NASA Sample Retrieval Lander that would carry a small rocket, called the Mars Ascent Vehicle, to the surface of the Red Planet.
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