NASA Asks for Help in Bringing Back Mars Samples After Mission Becomes Too Expensive
NASA is calling on industry players to come up with an alternative plan to return rocky samples from Mars at a lower cost and an earlier date. Wagner Moura on…
NASA’s Mars Helicopter Breaks a Blade and Will Never Fly Again
After nearly three years of flying across the Martian terrain, the Ingenuity helicopter has finally ended its mission. NASA declared Thursday that Ingenuity had sustained damage to a blade during…
NASA’s Mars Missions Hit Two-Week Snooze Button Because Sun
NASA’s Perseverance rover will be parked at this location on Mars during the communication blackout. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech For the next two weeks, NASA will not be sending commands to its…
NASA to Rewrite Mars Sample Return Mission So It Can Actually Happen
NASA is considering alternative ways to bring back samples from Mars after its budget and schedule for the sample return mission was deemed unrealistic in a recent report by an…
NASA’s Plan to Return Samples From Mars Is Pure Science Fiction, Report Finds
The findings from an independent review board suggest that NASA’s quest to return samples from Mars is riddled with challenges and seemingly impossible to accomplish under the current cost and…