Fund or cancel? Robots or humans? NASA punts on Mars Sample Return decision
NASA officials had an earlier plan to bring the Mars samples back to Earth, but the program slammed into a budgetary roadblock last year when an independent review team concluded the existing architecture would cost up to $11 billion —double the previous cost projection— and wouldn't get the Mars specimens back to Earth until 2040.
The space agency said it is considering two options that would cost in the $6 billion to $7 billion range, including one that ...
Since its deployment in February 2021, Perseverance has been diligently collecting samples of Martian rock and soil, which ...
Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...
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