Table 8.1 (continued)
Mission
concept
Description
Goals
Comments
Sample
return
Spacecraft rendezvous
and acquisition of cometary material followed by
return to Earth
- Detailed laboratory
analysis of cometary
material
The CAESAR New
Frontiers mission within
the NASA programme
went through a Phase A
study before losing out to
Dragonfly in the final
selection.
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