NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the MSR strategy is in the works, saying that NASA will seek innovative new ...
In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch ...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...
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 ...
The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.
NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has planned two new strategies to bring crucial samples from Mars to ...
NASA proposes a faster, cheaper plan to bring Mars samples to Earth, aiming for delivery by the 2030s while cutting costs ...
American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...
The first approach involves utilizing NASA’s proven sky crane technology, which successfully delivered the Perseverance rover ...
Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.