This Is How the First-Ever U.S. Asteroid Sample Return Will Unfold
Scientists are gearing up for a high-stakes finale to OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to snare a sample from an asteroid
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Scientists are gearing up for a high-stakes finale to OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to snare a sample from an asteroid
Congressional appropriators cutting the NASA budget fail to understand the importance of future returns on their spending choices.
A Senate Appropriations Committee budget report is suggesting NASA cancel Mars Sample Return if the agency can't rein in the mission's growing costs.
The House Committee is recommending a $25 billion budget for 2024, which is $2 billion shy of what the space agency had requested.
NASA is likely to face some serious money issues in the upcoming year that could affect the space agency’s science program, but not its Artemis Moon plans. At the same time, NASA’s wildly expensive Mars Sample Return mission is now under some very serious Senatorial scrutiny, with its future potentially in doubt.