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NASA won't decide on Mars Sample Return plan until mid-2026
NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the MSR strategy is in the works, saying that NASA will seek innovative new ideas from its research centers, private industry and academia.
NASA announces new approach to Mars Sample Return Program during news conference Tuesday
NASA announced Tuesday their new approach to their Mars Sample Return Program. The agency will develop two landing architectures in parallel, promoting competition and innovation while aiming for cost and schedule efficiency.
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.
NASA exploring two lower-cost options to go forward with Mars Sample Return mission
NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a lower cost.
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 had to be done because "this thing had gotten out of control."
Mars samples that could help us find alien life are stuck there until at least 2035, NASA says
Thus far, the agency has collected 30 samples on the red planet. But, the cost of returning them to Earth had delayed the Mars Sample Return program. It was estimated at $11 billion: a price tag that administrator Bill Nelson explained was “simply unacceptable.
NASA collected Mars rocks to haul to Earth. It still doesn’t know how.
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...
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How NASA and Sierra Space are preparing for Dream Chaser space plane's 1st flight to ISS
The simulation involved two full teams of flight controllers, the Sierra Space team in Colorado and the NASA team in Houston, ...
NASA proposes cheaper, quicker way to get Mars rocks and soil to Earth
NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars. Administrator Bill Nelson presented two ...
NASA is calibrating new clocks so people can live on the moon
Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have calculated a new system for measuring lunar time. While not needed ...
NASA astronaut reveals what the Northern Lights look like from space
The Northern Lights are one of the most mesmerizing natural phenomena on Earth, but seeing them from space offers an entirely ...
Nasa Said It Likely Rejected Young Hillary Clinton's Dream of Being an Astronaut
Clinton claimed she wrote a letter to the space agency as a child, wishing to be an astronaut at a time when there were no ...
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Pluto may have ‘kissed’ Charon to capture it
New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing collision.
Blue Ghost Lunar Lander scheduled to launch on January 15th
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