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Mars Sample Return: The mission that will bring home a piece of another planet. To find out what’s at stake, and how we’ll get a sample from the Red Planet, we spoke to ESA’s Dr Albert Haldemann. He’s the ExoMars Payload and Assembly, Integration and Verification Team Leader at ESA.