A Flag on Mars? Maybe Not So Soon.
Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest.
NASA defers decision on Mars Sample Return to the Trump administration
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...
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NASA will announce update to Mars sample return plans today. Here's how to listen in
NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme ... Perserverance and store them in a rocket that would then launch into orbit. Another spacecraft, provided by the European ...
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NASA punts Mars Sample Return decision to the next administration
In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch date, NASA put out a request for alternative proposals to all of its ...
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NASA won't decide on overhaul for Mars Sample Return mission until mid-2026
NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...
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NASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache
Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth ... that they may also launch by 2030. “I don’t think we want the only sample return coming back on the Chinese ...
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Europe plans to launch advanced Mars lander in 2035
The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.
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NASA Unveils New Approach for Mars Sample Return Program
How will NASA conduct its Mars Sample Return (MSR) Program? This is what the renowned space agency recently discussed as it unveiled two potential landing options for MSR with the goal of determining ...
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NASA exploring 2 options to lower costs, speed up Mars Sample Return mission
After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return ... sample recovery and a powerful solid-fuel rocket to launch the collected samples to orbit. Once in Mars ...
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NASA punts Mars Sample Return decision to the next administration
NASA has two options for bringing rock and sediment samples from Mars to Earth, but will let the incoming Trump administration decide which course to take. An independent review board found that ...
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NASA will announce update to Mars sample return plans today. Here's how to listen in
The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already gearing up for its first big announcement, this one about the agency's ambitious, yet beleaguered, Mars sample return mission ... in a rocket ...
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NASA will announce update to Mars sample return plans today. Here's how to listen in
China, for example, plans to launch its own sample return mission to Mars in 2028 with the goal of returning those samples to Earth in 2031. So, NASA isn't alone in its race to collect samples of ...