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NASA will announce update to Mars sample return plans today. Here's how to listen in
NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...
NASA’s Big Mars Update: How to Watch the Upcoming Sample Return Reveal
The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock ...
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 studies options to rein in cost of Mars Sample Return mission
After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could ...
NASA’s Answer to Mars Sample Return Problem: Develop Two Plans
The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...
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Los Angeles fires leave NASA's Deep Space Network mission control empty for 1st time in 60 years
Despite the evacuation of its Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, no space mission data has been lost, NASA says. NATIONAL HARBOR ...
NASA defers decision on Mars Sample Return to the Trump administration
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...
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NASA to Announce Plans to Bring Samples of Mars Back to Earth
In October 2024, NASA announced the assembly of a new team to assess the future of the Mars Sample Return mission, with a ...
NASA punts Mars Sample Return decision to the next administration
Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA's imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little ...
NASA’s Electric Marvel: The Dust Shield Transforming Moon Missions
NASA's new technology, the Electrodynamic Dust Shield, is set to transform how we manage lunar dust, using electrical forces ...
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NASA decision on Mars Sample Return reboot slides to 2026
NASA is weighing two options to return samples from Mars — one using proven technology and another that seeks help from ...
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NASA studies options to rein in cost of Mars Sample Return mission
Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars ... MSR mission, at a cost of nearly $6 billion, in 2028. But in September 2023, the ...