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A coming report will shed light on the Mars Sample Return mission's future. In the meantime, JPL awaits word, and two U.S. senators join the pressure campaign to preserve the mission.

A coming report will shed light on the Mars Sample Return mission's future. In the meantime, JPL awaits word, and two U.S. senators join the pressure campaign to preserve the mission.

Federal spending caps and inflation take a bite out of NASA's ambitions.

NASA are planning to return its Mars samples of rock and some dust / soil to biosafety level 4 facilities. That was fine in 2009. But the problem is that it doesn’t contain the very small microbes we now know exist called ultramicrobacteria which can get through a very tiny 0.1 micron nanopore and still be viable. The samples are in tubes on Mars.

We are excited to announce the latest edition of Akin's Space Law, Regulation and Policy Update, our newsletter focused on global space policy.

Could JPL's ambitious Mars Sample Return mission use the long-troubled, massively over budget, but ultimately successful James Webb Space Telescope as a guide?

NASA does difficult, inspiring and ambitious things — and it does them, in the immortal words of President John F. Kennedy, because they are hard. NASA’s most ambitious planetary project

NASA does difficult, inspiring and ambitious things – and it does them, in the immortal words of President John F. Kennedy, because they are hard. NASA’s most ambitious planetary project

The Perseverance has been filling collecting samples on Mars, awaiting the day when they will be taken back to Earth. But, if NASA does not have proper funding, the samples might never make it to Earth, writes Jonathan Lunine.

The Perseverance has been filling collecting samples on Mars, awaiting the day when they will be taken back to Earth. But, if NASA does not have proper funding, the samples might never make it to Earth, writes Jonathan Lunine.