The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock ...
NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...
NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...
NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...
NASA says it needs until 2026 before making a final decision on how the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission will work.
NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a lower cost.
Space agency says it needs one more year to decide whether its own hardware or a contractor’s will return Martian samples to ...
The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.
NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.
"The NASA/ESA approach to MSR seeks to address as ... "and that could end up meaning that MSR is not the first Mars sample return mission." Bruce Jakosky is a long-time Mars investigator and ...