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The agency is calling on private companies for backup.

New ideas will be key to making the mission happen after a report criticised its timescale and cost.

And NASA is calling on private companies for backup.

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And NASA is calling on private companies for backup.

It’s not easy to collect rocks on a budget when the rocks are 140 million miles away.

A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from $5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip to 2040.

From more Mars exploration to buzzing a moon of Saturn, space helicopters are just getting started

The discovery of an ancient lake bed beneath the Perseverance rovers location on Mars could mean the robotic scout has already scraped up microbial fossils. But we wont know for sure until we fetch the sample.

Mars Sample Return has always been an expensive, high-risk, high-reward project. But now, with realization of the mission’s actual cost and expanding timeline, Congress must commit to fully supporting the effort or risk tanking the rest of NASA’s planetary science program