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.
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 ...
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 narrows down to 2 options its reworked Mars Sample Return mission
NASA announced Tuesday it had narrowed down to two options the reworked Mars Sample Return mission aiming for a cheaper and ...
NASA studies options to rein in cost of 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 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 ...
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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 ...
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Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved?
Zuber and colleagues are to assess all the study outputs ... Looming large in space and time for sampling of Mars is China's Tianwen-3 mission that could retrieve specimens for lab looks here ...
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Nuclear electric propulsion technology could make missions to Mars faster
The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of ... to space in whatever way would make the most sense, then have it all assembled off the planet. Once in space, robots would connect the ...
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NASA exploring 2 options to lower costs, speed up Mars Sample Return mission
"The decision over the course of time, with all the engineering that has ... $200 million for ongoing development of the Mars Sample Return mission in NASA's fiscal 2025 budget.
NASA punts Mars Sample Return decision to the next administration
In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch ...