Scientific American

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Program Faces Stark Choices

NASA’s troubled Mars Sample Return program is stuck at a crossroads—and is likely to remain in limbo until at least 2026—agency officials said at a press briefing on Tuesday. To bring this precious ...
Scientific American

NASA’s Troubled Mars Sample Mission Has Scientists Seeing Red

NASA is seemingly caught between a Mars rock and a hard place. The space agency’s best-laid plan to robotically retrieve prized samples of the Red Planet for scrutiny back on Earth has been decades in ...
Los Angeles Times

Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL’s Mars Sample Return mission

After months of turmoil over the future of a vaunted mission to bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth, NASA has its verdict on Mars Sample Return. The space agency is “committed” to bringing ...
SpaceNews

NASA to look for new options to carry out Mars Sample Return program

WASHINGTON — NASA will seek “out of the box” ideas in a bid to reduce the costs and shorten the schedule for returning samples from Mars. In an April 15 briefing, agency officials announced they would ...
Ars Technica

NASA defers decision on Mars Sample Return to the Trump administration

For nearly four years, NASA’s Perseverance rover has journeyed across an unexplored patch of land on Mars—once home to an ancient river delta—and collected a slew of rock samples sealed inside ...