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NASA's Mars Sample Return Program struggles to get off the drawing board: The tech just isn't ready and clunky collab with ESA isn't helping ...
theregister.com/2024/03/04/mars_sample_return_audit_warnings/
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America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in.: The Mars Sample Return mission got off to a promising start, hunting for potentially ...
technologyreview.com/2026/02/26/1133584/america-china-mars-sample-return-space-race-nasa/

Trump Budget Calls for Stranding NASA’s Mars Samples on the Red Planet: After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to ...
scientificamerican.com/article/trump-budget-calls-for-stranding-nasas-mars-samples-on-the-red-planet/
A rover has been collecting rocks from Mars for years. How will they get back to Earth?
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NASA still has no plan for returning Mars rocks: The Perseverance rover has already taken a number of valuable rock samples on Mars. But it is still unclear how ...
spektrum.de/news/nasa-bei-rueckholaktion-fuer-marsgestein-noch-immer-ohne-plan/2249166

NASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache
cnn.com/2025/01/07/science/nasa-mars-sample-return-options/

NASA Assessing Options For Faster, Cheaper Mars Sample Return: Samples aboard the Perseverance rover may hold evidence of past life on Mars.
aviationweek.com/space/space-exploration/nasa-assessing-options-faster-cheaper-mars-sample-return

With NASA’s plan faltering, China knows it can be first with Mars sample return: "China is likely to become the first country to return samples from Mars ...
arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/with-nasas-plan-faltering-china-knows-it-can-be-first-with-mars-sample-return/

NASA's plan to return Mars rocks is in trouble. Could these 7 companies help?: The agency looks for savings in an $11 billion mission.
mashable.com/article/nasa-mars-sample-return-solutions

NASA Funds Studies For Mars Sample Return Mission Options: Out of 48 proposals for less-expensive, faster options for returning samples from Mars ...
aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/nasa-funds-studies-mars-sample-return-mission-options
NASA needs help retrieving Mars samples that may reveal past alien life: NASA's Perseverance rover is collecting Mars rock and soil that could contain hints of ...
businessinsider.com/nasa-asks-help-retrieving-perseverance-mars-samples-alien-life-2024-4

NASA working on a simpler, cheaper and quicker way to bring back samples from Mars
wionews.com/science/nasas-mars-sample-return-plan-faces-expense-issues-agency-looks-for-cheaper-plans-711710

It’s exactly 20 years since a Mars rover took this historic image: Twenty years ago, on March 8, a NASA Mars rover called Spirit made history when it captured a ...
digitaltrends.com/space/20-years-since-mars-rover-took-historic-image/

Mars Sample Return Is Still Worth Doing—Even If We Have to Wait: We should return samples from Mars to answer fundamental scientific
questions ...
scientificamerican.com/article/mars-sample-return-is-still-worth-doing-even-if-we-have-to-wait/

Mars Mission's Budget Problems Force NASA Layoffs: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is eliminating nearly 600 workers due to funding shortfalls for the space ...
space.com/nasa-jpl-layoffs-february-2024-mars-sample-return

By email from home office: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory lays off hundreds: The budget is still being negotiated in the US Congress, and this has consequences ...
heise.de/news/Budget-nicht-fertig-Jet-Propulsion-Laboratory-entlaesst-8-der-Belegschaft-9623829.html

Save the Mars Sample Return mission, plead Congresscritters: Letter: Budget cuts will 'essentially cancel' daring multi vehicle project unless reversed
theregister.com/2024/02/02/save_the_mars_sample_return/

NASA Lab's Workforce Woes Threaten Major Space Missions: A brain drain from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory could pose problems for the space agency’s ambitious ...
scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-labs-workforce-woes-threaten-major-space-missions/
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