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.
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Rocket Lab takes jab at NASA with release of Mars sample return plan
The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.
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 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 ...
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 ...
NASA Will Let Trump Decide How to Bring Mars Rocks to Earth
The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.
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New photos show the volcanic plains of Mercury after a spacecraft fly-by
The BepiColombo spacecraft flew less than 200 miles from Mercury's surface and photographed volcanic plains and icy craters.
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European spacecraft beams back new photos of Mercury
The BepiColombo spacecraft came within 183 miles (295 kilometers) of Mercury’s surface during its sixth and final flyby, the European Space Agency announced Thursday. The stunning snapshots ...
NASA and Italian Space Agency test future lunar navigation technology
As the Artemis campaign leads humanity to the moon and eventually Mars, NASA is refining its state-of-the-art navigation and ...
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European spacecraft beams back new photos of Mercury
The BepiColombo spacecraft came within 183 miles (295 kilometers) of Mercury’s surface during its sixth and final flyby, the European Space Agency announced Thursday. The stunning snapshots reveal a ...