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Mars Sample Return now! (op-ed)

The White House's 2026 budget request axes NASA's long-held plan to bring Mars samples to Earth for analysis. Here's why that cancellation would be a mistake.

NASA Sets 2028 Launch For First Nuclear Mission To Mars Days Before Return To The Moon

NASA plans a 2028 nuclear-powered Mars mission using SR-1 Freedom and Skyfall helicopters, aiming to transform deep-space ...
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Trump's 2026 budget plan would cancel NASA's Mars Sample Return mission. Experts say that's a 'major step back'

The White House says NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is a waste of money, but experts say the mission could help it achieve ...
AOL

NASA punts Mars Sample Return decision to the next administration

A photomontage shows tubes containing samples from Mars, as collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The agency's Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples back to study them in ...
Yahoo

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission in Jeopardy as U.S. Considers Abandoning Retrieval

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds ...
Forbes

With Mars Sample Return Delay, ESA’s Rover Launch Has Fresh Urgency

The years-long delay of the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission leaves astrobiologists —- indeed most of humanity —- longing for some sort of next level closure on whether Mars ever had ...
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 ...
IFLScience

What Next For NASA’s Beleaguered Mars Sample Return Mission – Will We Get Them Before 2040?

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
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 ...