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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    An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.
    01/13/2025 - 4:52 am | View Link
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    01/13/2025 - 1:24 am | View Link
  • Here's Why Rocket Lab Wants NASA to Pay It $4 Billion
    NASA wants to go to Mars again -- and this time, bring back rocks.
    01/12/2025 - 11:45 pm | View Link
  • NASA Exploring Innovative Approaches to Bring Mars Samples Back to Earth
    The first approach involves utilizing NASA’s proven sky crane technology, which successfully delivered the Perseverance rover to the Martian surface in 2021. This technology could play a key role in ...
    01/11/2025 - 4:02 pm | View Link
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