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January 16, 2024
NASA's Mars Sample Return program is the agency’s highest priority in planetary science, but projected multibillion-dollar overruns have some calling the plan a 'dumpster fire.'
January 15, 2024
NASAs Mars Sample Return program is the agency’s highest priority in planetary science, but projected multibillion-dollar overruns have some calling the plan a dumpster fire.
January 11, 2024
NASA has selected a crew of four volunteers to participate in a simulated journey to Mars inside a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
January 11, 2024
A House bill would fund NASA’s full request of $949.3 million for the Mars Sample Return program, while the Senate version allocates only $300 million.
January 11, 2024
Federal budget cuts have hit NASA hard. As a result, the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has reportedly laid off 100 contractors last week, the LA Times reports, potentially forcing it to scale back its hugely ambitious Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. Last week, JPL director Laurie Leshin told staff that NASA's efforts to return samples from Mars back to Earth may be capped at just $300 million
January 11, 2024
NASA’s Mars Sample Return program is the agency’s highest priority in planetary science, but projected multibillion-dollar overruns have some calling the plan a “dumpster fire”
January 10, 2024
Federal budget cuts have hit NASA hard. As a result, the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has reportedly laid off 100 contractors last week, the LA Times reports, potentially forcing it to scale back its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. Last week, JPL director Laurie Leshin told staff that NASA's efforts to return pieces of […]
January 10, 2024
The NASA-funded private Peregrine mission is ending in defeat, but that doesn't mean NASA needs to change course.
January 10, 2024
A House bill would fund NASA’s full request of $949.3 million for the Mars Sample Return program, while the Senate version allocates only $300 million.
January 10, 2024
The dreaded announcement arrived yesterday in a tweet, with Astrobotic admitting that, as a result of a catastrophic propellant leak, there’s “no chance of a soft landing on the Moon.” Mission specialists are scrambling to salvage what they can, but the much-hyped Peregrine-1 lunar mission is effectively over, with a faulty valve being the likely culprit.United Launch Alliance launched the Astrobotic-developed Peregrin