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 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 ...
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NASA will announce update to Mars sample return plans on Jan. 7. Here's how to listen in
The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already gearing up for its first big announcement, this one about the agency's ambitious, yet beleaguered, Mars sample return mission. On Tuesday (Jan.
A rover has been collecting rocks from Mars for years. How will they get back to Earth?
A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...
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.
Evidence of Life on Mars? NASA’s Bold Strategy to Recover the Proof
NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...
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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, ...
Mars samples that could help us find alien life are stuck there until at least 2035, NASA says
Dozens of samples of rock and sediment collected from Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned to Earth as soon as 2035 and as late as 2039, depending on the course ...
A Full Moon, a Bold Mars and a New Comet Brighten January’s Skies
On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s ...
NASA Plans Cheaper, Faster Ways To Bring Back Mars Samples By 2030s
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has planned two new strategies to bring crucial samples from Mars to ...
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NASA hedges its bets on costly Mars rock mission
Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample until the 2040's, noted Nelson, who said a re-evaluation of the mission ...