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NASA’s Mars Sample Return program is the agency’s highest priority in planetary science, but projected multibillion-dollar overruns have some calling the plan a “dumpster fire”
Federal budget cuts have hit NASA hard. As a result, the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has reportedly laid off 100 contractors last week, the LA Times reports, potentially forcing it to scale back its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. Last week, JPL director Laurie Leshin told staff that NASA's efforts to return pieces of […]
The NASA-funded private Peregrine mission is ending in defeat, but that doesn't mean NASA needs to change course.
A House bill would fund NASA’s full request of $949.3 million for the Mars Sample Return program, while the Senate version allocates only $300 million.
The dreaded announcement arrived yesterday in a tweet, with Astrobotic admitting that, as a result of a catastrophic propellant leak, there’s “no chance of a soft landing on the Moon.” Mission specialists are scrambling to salvage what they can, but the much-hyped Peregrine-1 lunar mission is effectively over, with a faulty valve being the likely culprit.United Launch Alliance launched the Astrobotic-developed Peregrin