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NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin a $194 million contract to develop the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) – a rocket designed will carry the first "ro...

The Mars Sample Return mission is a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), which is building a small fetch rover to gather the collected samples.

The agency wants to bring some of Perseverance rovers samples back to Earth..

Lockheed Martin will build the Mars Ascent Vehicle, a small rocket that will launch pristine Red Planet samples back toward Earth a decade or so from now.

NASA's two Mars rovers, Perseverance and Curiosity, are currently exploring the red planet to learn more about its history and to search for evidence that there

Nasa-logo-web-rgb.jpg NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small

For the first time in its 85-year history, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a female director.

For the first time in its 85-year history, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a female director.

Geochemist and space scientist Laurie Leshin will serve as the director for JPL as well as the vice president of the California Institute of Technology.

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