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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 ...
NASA collected Mars rocks to haul to Earth. It still hasn’t decided how.
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ancient life on Mars.
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NASA will announce update to Mars sample return plans today. Here's how to listen in
NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already ...
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NASA’s Big Mars Update: How to Watch the Upcoming Sample Return Reveal
An artist’s conception of the Earth Return Orbiter (part of the Mars Sample Return mission) over Mars. Illustration: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC Check, check—is this thing on? NASA officials ...
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NASA decision on Mars Sample Return 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 exploring 2 options to lower costs, speed up Mars Sample Return mission
Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample ... where the ESA spacecraft would capture and return them ...
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NASA to study two alternative architectures for Mars Sample Return
That is intended to simplify a NASA-designed capture and containment system on ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter ... alternative if they want to have Mars Sample Return, which I can’t imagine that ...
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NASA punts Mars Sample Return decision to the next administration
NASA has two options for bringing rock and sediment samples from Mars to Earth, but will let the incoming Trump administration decide which course to take. An independent review board found that ...
ABC News28d
NASA exploring two lower-cost options to go forward with Mars Sample Return mission
NASA's mission is to return ... The goal of the Mars Sample Return Program, which is being planned jointly with the European Space Agency (ESA), is to retrieve samples of rock, gas and loose ...
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NASA: More Time Needed To Plan Mars Sample Return
NASA has set a goal to return rock and soil samples from the surface of Mars in the 2030s. The mission would represent the first time scientific samples from another planet have been returned to ...
NASA makes 'unlike anything we've seen before' Mars discovery
Mars represents one of the most promising locations in our solar system to search for signs of past or present life ...
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NASA won't decide on Mars Sample Return plan until mid-2026
NASA is considering two ways to get its precious Mars samples back to Earth, but the agency won't pick a winner for another 18 months or so. Analysis of those samples, which are being collected by ...