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The findings from an independent review board suggest that NASA’s quest to return samples from Mars is riddled with challenges and seemingly impossible to accomplish under the current cost and schedule expectations.

NASA's complex plan to return rocky samples from the Red Planet has faced scrutiny for increasing cost and delays.

Planetary Society members traveled to Washington, D.C., in September 2023 to advocate for the future of space science and exploration.

"MSR was established with unrealistic budget and schedule expectations from the beginning."

Safe delivery of samples from an asteroid on 24 September will be the start of a global scientific journey — but similar missions need support. Safe delivery of samples from an asteroid on 24 September will be the start of a global scientific journey — but similar missions need support.

(1) DOCTOROW ON FABLES TABLE-FLIP. Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic post “Bill Willingham puts his graphic novel series ‘Fables’ into the public domain (15 Sept 2023)” assesses many IP rights issues triggered by Willingham’s announcement. …It's been 21 years since Bill Willingham launched Fables, his 110-issue, wide-ranging, delightful and brilliantly crafted author-owned comic series that imagines that the

The rock isn’t actually a fruit, but it was a fascinating target for the rover’s cameras thanks to its eye-catching shape.

NASA’s Division of Biological and Physical Sciences needs more investment, according to top U.S. scientists.

A new decadal survey from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine just dropped, and establishing a sustained human presence off-Earth is on the docket. But NASA’s Division of Biological and Physical Sciences (BPS) is underfunded, the survey reports, which could jeopardize humankind’s ability to actually establish such a presence.

The ESA has contracted Airbus as the lead for Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial and Helio Studies (TRUTHS) A/B1 contract.