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NASA’s Mars Rover Mission to Bring Samples Back Home From the Red Planet Is at Risk
An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.
NASA exploring two lower-cost options to go forward with Mars Sample Return mission
NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a lower cost.
Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved?
NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet.
NASA's bold mission: Retrieving Mars rocks by 2033
NASA has announced potential plans to recover rock samples from Mars. Scientists will investigate whether there is extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. Bringing back the Perseverance rover, which has been collecting materials from the bottom of a Martian lake since 2021,
NASA collected Mars rocks to haul to Earth. It still hasn’t decided how.
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ancient life on Mars.
NASA exploring 2 options to lower costs, speed up Mars Sample Return mission
NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.
NASA won't decide on overhaul for Mars Sample Return mission until mid-2026
NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the MSR strategy is in the works, saying that NASA will seek innovative new ideas from its research centers, private industry and academia.
NASA asked for cheaper ways to get Mars samples. It had one all along.
Recent exceptional rock discoveries have only mounted pressure on NASA to solve the problems facing its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of rock, dust, and air collected by Perseverance back to Earth.
Delays and cost drive NASA's revamped Mars sample mission
NASA has announced potential plans to recover rock samples from Mars. Scientists aim to investigate whether there is extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. Bringing back the Perseverance rover, which has been collecting materials from the bottom of a Martian lake since 2021,
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NASA Unsure How to Bring Bits of Mars to Earth, Takes Two Years to Think About It
American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...
NASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache
NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...
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Los Angeles fires leave NASA's Deep Space Network mission control empty for 1st time in 60 years
The fires have been relentlessly ravaging homes and infrastructure for the last several days and, at one point, they also ...
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NASA plans football field-sized space radiator for nuclear-powered Mars ship
Researchers at NASA Langley are developing a next-gen system called MARVL (Modular Assembled Radiators for Nuclear Electric ...
Nuclear electric propulsion technology could make missions to Mars faster
The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of heart. We're not talking days, weeks, or months. But there are ...
See Ethereal Night-Shining Clouds Decorate The Mars Sky
NASA’s Curiosity rover is skygazing and photographing lovely examples of noctilucent clouds on Mars. The wispy formations ...
Here's Why Rocket Lab Wants NASA to Pay It $4 Billion
With that in mind, Rocket Lab this week urged NASA to immediately launch an official commercial competition for MSR, and open ...
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NASA plans to grow fresh food for astronauts on future missions
NASA is exploring methods to provide astronauts with fresh, nutritious food, like plants during future missions to the Moon ...