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 ...
Physics World

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission slammed by independent review panel

Under fire: the Mars Sample Return mission would bring back Martian samples that had been collected by NASA’s Perseverance Rover (courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech) With an original price tag of $4bn, the ...
Gizmodo

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 independent review ...
Salon

To Mars and back: Will NASA’s ambitious endeavor be worth it?

This article originally appeared on Undark. It Was fall in the Utah desert, and NASA scientist Lindsay Hays was watching the sky. A fat flying saucer soon touched down — a capsule containing bits of ...
Scientific American

The Mars Sample Return Mission Is at a Dangerous Crossroads

NASA excels at bold projects. Consider the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is rewriting cosmology and revealing profound insights into stellar evolution, along with precious views of our own ...
Gizmodo

NASA ‘Pauses’ Mars Sample Return to Get a Grip on the Mission

The space agency has put its ambitious plans to return samples from Mars on hold as it sorts out its funding for next year. Reading time 3 minutes NASA is pulling back from its Mars Sample Return ...