NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

NASA has announced the next steps for its beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission, the ambitious plans to retrieve multiple samples collected on the Red Planet, so they can be analyzed by more ...

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA’s imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little longer. The agency has settled on two potential strategies for the first ...

Rocket Lab’s architecture resembles NASA’s original Mars Sample Return profile, with a few tweaks. The first step would be to ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has planned two new strategies to bring crucial samples from Mars to Earth, aiming for a return by the 2030s.

Though the agency's Perseverance rover started collecting Martian regolith four years ago, the Mars Sample Return program's rising costs have made it difficult for officials to land on a specific ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over ... Fallon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Mr. Nelson, who will step down as NASA administrator with the change of presidents ...

The goal of the Mars Sample Return Program, which is being planned ... The mission's next steps would be the launch of the Sample Retrieval Lander to Mars, carrying with it a rocket.

"It's also unacceptable, $11 billion dollars." The Mars Sample Return Mission is seen by NASA officials as a major step in to sending astronauts to the red planet. Nelson called it an "important ...