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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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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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.
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NASA exploring two lower-cost options to go forward with Mars Sample Return mission
Mars Sample Retrieval Lander Concept Illustration ... has been collecting and storing samples in specially designed sealed titanium tubes that are roughly the size of a cigar.
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NASA asked for cheaper ways to get Mars samples. It had one all along.
NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through a ... we want to return 30 titanium tubes as soon as possible at the cheapest price." NASA plans to finalize ...
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NASA decision on Mars Sample Return reboot slides to 2026
The Mars Sample Return program is a joint NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) initiative that so far has collected 28 titanium-sealed tubes containing cigar-sized samples dug up by NASA’s ...
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NASA Is One Step Closer to Bringing Mars Samples to Earth
Artist's rendering of a Mars lander that could retrieve ... success means bringing home 30 of Perseverance's 43 cigar-sized titanium sample tubes. And while NASA is now investigating the viability ...
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NASA proposes cheaper, quicker way to get Mars rocks and soil to Earth
“We want to return 30 titanium tubes as soon as possible at ... things by having the sample tubes cleaned on the surface of Mars, versus in the returning spacecraft, and switching from solar ...