The agency has had a Mars sample-return (MSR) architecture in place for some time now, but repeated delays and cost overruns have rendered the original plan impractical, NASA officials announced ...

Related: NASA's Mars sample return plan is getting a major overhaul: 'The bottom line is $11 billion is too expensive' Seven of the proposals received a $1.5 million contract to conduct 90-day ...

The plan would significantly overhaul flagship programs ... It would also cancel the Mars Sample Return mission, a joint project with the European Space Agency to bring back rock samples collected by ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The Perseverance rover is collecting the rock samples that would be returned to Earth The Mars Sample Return, or MSR, programme is a joint endeavour with the European Space ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Bridges receives funding from the UK Space Agency for NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return planning groups tasked with identifying the best techniques to analyse returned samples, and the closest ...

BEIJING - China is seeking payload proposals for its Mars sample return mission and inviting overseas researchers to ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over ... came up with changes that are more so revisions than a complete overhaul. “We’re really excited about this,” said Nicola ...

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 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 ...