Space.com28d
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 ...
Scientific American27d
NASA’s Mars Sample Return Program Faces Stark Choices
NASA’s troubled Mars Sample Return program is stuck at a crossroads—and is likely to remain in limbo until at least 2026—agency officials said at a press briefing on Tuesday. To bring this ...
Space.com29d
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 ...
Los Angeles Times28d
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 ...
NASA defers decision on Mars Sample Return to the Trump administration
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump ...
CBS News28d
NASA exploring 2 options to lower costs, speed up Mars Sample Return mission
"If they want to have a Mars sample return, which I can't imagine that they don't, I don't think we want the only sample return coming back on a Chinese spacecraft." He called a planned Chinese ...
CNN28d
NASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache
The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program. Designed by NASA and the European Space Agency, the initial plan was deemed unwieldy after an independent review ...
ABC News29d
NASA exploring two lower-cost options to go forward with Mars Sample Return mission
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 surface material that were collected ...
Phys.org28d
NASA punts Mars Sample Return decision to the next administration
Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA's imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little longer. The agency has settled on two potential strategies for the first ...