One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions

What is not controversial is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. NASA’s ...
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New NASA and ESA animation illustrates the return of Martian samples to Earth

The NASA and ESA Mars Sample Return mission will send bits of the Red Planet collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth.
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Could Rocket Lab pick up Mars samples from NASA's rover? Watch animation how

See Rocket Lab's "proposed mission architecture" for a Mars sample return mission in this animation. Credit: Rocket Lab ...
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China Will Bring Back Samples of Mars Before the U.S., Tianwen 3 Mission Goes Up in 2028

For several years now the biggest space agencies in the Western world have been struggling to get going the Mars Sample Return mission, perhaps the most ambitious robotic space mission ever undertaken ...

NASA’s new Mars orbiter sparks questions over a $700 million competition

Nasa has officially opened bidding for a new Mars telecommunications spacecraft, but the $700 million mission is already attracting controversy over concerns that the competition may favour a specific ...
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NASA decision on Mars Sample Return reboot slides to 2026

NASA has set a goal to return rock and soil samples from the surface of Mars in the 2030s. The mission would represent the first time scientific samples from another planet have been returned to Earth ...

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