After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost up to $11 billion, NASA "pulled the plug" and is focusing on two options ...
NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has planned two new strategies to bring crucial samples from Mars to ...
NASA's mission is to return rock, soil and others samples to Earth for study. NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward with its mission to retrieve ...
Mars Sample Return is humanity’s first mission to bring ... or as late as 2039, and with costs that range from $5.5 billion to $7.7 billion — a “far cry” from the original figure, Nelson ...
American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...
An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.
A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...