Comment on NASA’s Mars Rover Mission to Bring Samples Back Home From the Red Planet Is at Risk

NASA’s Mars Rover Mission to Bring Samples Back Home From the Red Planet Is at Risk

For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding to develop a mission that would see an uncrewed spacecraft land on the Red Planet, collect and cache samples of rock and soil, and bring them back to Earth for study—all without the risk and expense of sending human crews out to do the spelunking.

 

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