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Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. For those who haven't heard, the first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner capsule has been pushed back yet

The lead scientist for NASAs Perseverance Mars rover is excited about material that has been stored in the rovers sample tubes.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 20, 2024 - NASA and ESA announced they signed an agreement to expand NASAs work on the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover, an ESA-led mission launching in 2028 to search for signs of ancient life on Mars.

The tests are part of NASA's Mars Exploration Commercial Services studies to support its Mars Exploration Program, which is slated to send missions to M

The agency is calling on private companies for backup.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 02, 2024 - NASA has commissioned 12 concept studies from nine U.S. companies to explore how commercial services could support scientific missions to Mars. These studies, funded between $200,000 and $300,000 ea

National space agencies have always been solely responsible for Mars exploration, but NASA is attempting to change that by giving private companies a dozen research assignments in advance of future commercial support for trips to the Red Planet.This is the second time in a month that the agency has expressed a desire for commercial participation …

NASA is expanding its plans for Mars, looking at not only a mission to bring back a sample but also smaller, lower-cost missions to enable exploration.

Nine companies have been selected to conduct early-stage studies of concepts for commercial services to support lower-cost, higher-frequency missions to the

Mars exploration has always been the exclusive purview of national space agencies, but NASA is trying to change that, awarding a dozen research tasks to private companies as a prelude to commercial support for future missions to the Red Planet. It's the second time in a month that the agency has shown its desire for commercial support in Mars missions, having more or less scrapped the original Mars Sample Return mission in favor of a to-be-determined alternative, likely by private space co...