In response to reports of the Trump administration aiming to slash NASA's 2026 science budget by nearly half, US Planetary ...

NASA has shared an update on its beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission, admitting that its previous plan was too ambitious and announcing that it will now be looking for new ideas to make the ...

Mars sample return tube Instead, NASA and their international partners have been working to distribute the cost and complexity of the mission among several different vehicles. In fact, the first ...

A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by NASA ...

With the roughly 20-day wide launch window for the Mars 2020 mission rapidly ... already within the titanium sample tube in which it will remain until the sample return mission.

Lockheed Martin has been part of all NASA Mars missions to date and it has been part of every single sample return mission to ...

Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech In an update on efforts to lower the cost and hasten the schedule for a challenging Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, NASA estimates it is a year to a year and a half ...

China’s simpler "grab-and-go" mission, targeting a 2028 launch, could return Mars samples years ahead of NASA, adding urgency to the U.S. effort. Revised plans estimate costs of $5.8–$7.7 ...

Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by Nasa with participation ... The space agency issued a call for ideas from industry and is currently studying two proposals. But in terms of the broad mechanics ...