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NASA’s Mars Sample Return Program Faces Stark Choices
NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them until 2026
NASA exploring two lower-cost options to go forward with Mars Sample Return mission
NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a lower cost.
Mars rock samples may contain evidence of alien life, but can NASA get them back to Earth?
NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance these samples contain evidence of alien life.
NASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache
NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if the cache can make it back in the 2030s.
NASA hedges its bets on costly Mars rock mission
NASA has decided it's going to pursue parallel missions to attempt to retrieve samples of rock on Mars collected by rovers.
NASA mulls new strategies for Mars sample return mission
NASA has announced potential plans to retrieve rock samples from Mars. Scientists aim to investigate whether extraterrestrial life exists on the Red Planet. Bringing back the Perseverance rover, which has been gathering materials from the bottom of a Martian lake since 2021,
Evidence of Life on Mars? NASA’s Bold Strategy to Recover the Proof
NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between two strategic plans to enhance cost-efficiency and spark innovation. These Martian samples could revolutionize our understanding of Mars and the wider universe,
NASA's race to bring possible Mars life evidence home by 2033
The Perseverance rover has collected Martian rock samples in two different ways, which NASA believes may contain evidence of extraterrestrial life. This effort has been ongoing since 2021, and rocks and sediments have been gathered from an ancient Martian lakebed.
NASA faces delays in martian rock return mission
The Perseverance rover has collected Martian rock samples in two distinct ways, which NASA believes might contain evidence of extraterrestrial life. This mission has been underway since 2021, with rocks and sediments gathered from the ancient lakebed on Mars.
How Star Trek fans changed the name of NASA’s first space shuttle
These are the voyages of the space shuttle Enterprise, boldly renamed by former President Gerald Ford after a massive ...
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab still 'untouched' by raging LA fires
"But our community has been very seriously impacted, with over 150 JPLers who have lost their homes and many more displaced." ...
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Could Elon Musk Upend NASA’s Return to the Moon? Astronaut Weighs In
Reid Wiseman, commander of NASA’s Artemis II mission to fly the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with a crew around ...
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NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory back online after 2024 data center flood
The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost." ...
Gov. DeSantis proposes moving NASA headquarters to Florida's Space Coast
CAPE CANAVERAL - A proposal by Gov. Ron DeSantis to relocate NASA's headquarters from Washington D.C. to the Kennedy Space ...
NASA instrument on Firefly's Blue Ghost Lander to study lunar interior
As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex lunar deliveries and missions to ...
Avenging the Concorde: Inside NASA’s Quest to Break the Sound Barrier and Hush the Sonic Boom
If NASA’s bet on its newest X-plane pays off, the long-nosed aircraft could revolutionize commercial aviation. That is, if ...
The Future Of The Spacesuit; What NASA’s Artemis Astronauts Will Wear
Space Communications Specialist Alexandra Doten, AKA Astro Alexandra, on the gear designed for future space travel, what will ...