Winning the Red Planet race: Returning Mars samples before China should be a top US priority, experts say

For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...
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Mars samples at stake as experts warn U.S. delays may benefit China

U.S. plans to return Mars samples face delays as China advances its own mission. Scientists and policymakers debate costs, timelines, and the role of sample return in future Mars exploration ...
Donga Science

Budget Deal Effectively Halts NASA's Ambitious Mars Sample Return Mission

NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, designed to bring drilled rock samples from the Martian surface back to Earth to ...
SpaceNews

Perseverance continues science mission amid uncertainty about Mars Sample Return

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...
Futurism

As NASA’s Mars Sample Return Stumbles, China Is Looking to Beat Them to the Punch

The space race continues as China moves up the date for its historic Mars sample return mission while the US slashes its own trip to collect rocks from the Red Planet. As SpaceNews reports, the chief ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Mars leopard spots just popped up, and they resemble life signatures

On a battered rock in an ancient Martian riverbed, a pattern of dark, rounded patches has jolted planetary science. These ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s Answer to Mars Sample Return Problem: Develop Two Plans

The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them back to Earth. Reading time 3 minutes NASA’s Perseverance rover has been ...
SpaceNews

NASA Releases Independent Review’s Mars Sample Return Report

An Independent Review Board (IRB) looked at NASA’s current plans and goals of the first mission to return samples from Mars, and NASA is establishing a team to respond. In addition to bringing home ...
Los Angeles Times

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 the ...

US House and Senate Push for Regular NASA Budget

The final appropriations bill aims to maintain NASA's budgets from 2024 and 2025, instead of cutting the agency's allocations ...
Morning Overview on MSN

China vs. SpaceX vs. NASA: Who reaches Mars first?

The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese ...
AOL

NASA punts Mars Sample Return decision to the next administration

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA’s imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little longer. The agency has settled on two potential strategies for the first ...