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 ...

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 ...

Under the proposed spending overhaul [PDF] from the Office of Management and ... as the budget scraps the Mars Sample Return mission and punts its objectives to some future crewed expedition. Closer ...

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 ...

The state-of-the-art Perseverance Mars ... sample return mission seen as feasible when the rover launched has recently seen its costs rise to $11 billion, prompting NASA to begin a complete ...

The original Mars Sample Return Program called for collecting ... the agency announced a major program overhaul, Live Science's sister site Space.com reported. In September 2024, NASA accepted ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Nicky Fox, associate administrator for the space agency’s Science Mission Directorate, on Tuesday said officials would not decide on a Mars Sample Return ...

NASA has two options for bringing rock and sediment samples from Mars to Earth, but will let the incoming Trump administration decide which course to take. An independent review board found that ...

NASA has announced an overhaul to its plan to bring samples ... for when the samples could be brought back. Through its Mars Sample Return Program, NASA has for more than two decades been inching ...