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Robotic New Frontiers Mission
NASA hosts a future Robotic Mission in our Solar System called "New Frontiers". It picks two finalists in a competition, one is returning comet sample to Earth and another is to explore different parts of Saturn’s moon Titan.
The First Mission, spearheaded by Steve Squyres at Cornell University. This mission will collect the organic compounds which constitute the building blocks of life in order to try to understand how comets contributed to life on Earth.
The Second Mission, spearheaded by Elizabeth Turtle at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, is called Dragonfly. It’ll involve sending a helicopter-like robot to the surface of Titan, one of Saturn’s moons.
So far, three missions have been created through the New Frontiers program and are currently exploring the Solar System. NASA started accepting proposals for a Fourth Mission in December of last year, and all submissions had to be sent in by April 28th.