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A rover has been collecting rocks from Mars for years. How will they get back to Earth?
For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...
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NASA eyes SpaceX, Blue Origin to cut Mars rock retrieval costs
This NASA photo released on February 24, 2021, shows images from NASA's Mars ... Bezos’s Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of returning Martian rocks collected by the Perseverance ...
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NASA exploring 2 options to lower costs, speed up Mars Sample Return mission
Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance ... like SpaceX, Blue Origin or others to provide a "heavy" Mars landing craft that could ...
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NASA eyes SpaceX, Blue Origin to cut Mars rock retrieval costs
NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk's SpaceX or Jeff Bezos's Blue ... the Perseverance rover to Earth. Originally planned to deliver 30 sample tubes to Earth by the 2030s, the Mars ...
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NASA eyes SpaceX, Blue Origin to cut Mars rock retrieval costs
Handout/NASA/JPL-CALTECH/AFP NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk's SpaceX or Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of returning ...