"To decide not to return them, or to put it off to an indefinite future time with human missions would be to take a major ...

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One of NASA’s biggest space missions is in deep trouble. The Mars Sample Return mission is currently on track to be one of the biggest undertakings the space agency has ever attempted ...

NASA has big goals for Mars. The agency wants to collect the first samples from the Martian surface and return them to Earth ...

NASA is smoothing out the final details of its future program to bring back treasured martian samples, also known as the Mars Sample Return Program, and its new helicopters might make future ...

The plan would significantly overhaul flagship programs ... It would also cancel the Mars Sample Return mission, a joint ...

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 ...

A casualty stemming from this projected budget bombshell is the Mars Sample Return (MSR) venture. In fact, MSR is tagged in the White House's proposed 2026 budget as "grossly over budget and whose ...