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NASA’s Mars Sample Return Program Faces Stark Choices

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them until 2026

Ars Technica · 20h

NASA defers decision on Mars Sample Return to the Trump administration

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump nominated entrepreneur and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman as the agency's 15th administrator last month.

CBS News on MSN · 1d

NASA exploring 2 options to lower costs, speed up Mars Sample Return mission

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

NASA to take a call on bringing rocks from Mars in 2026

Hosted on MSN · 15h

NASA scrapped its $11 billion scheme to grab Mars rocks that may point to alien life. Now it has a faster, cheaper plan.

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The samples may arrive sooner.

U.S. News & World Report · 1d

NASA Proposes Cheaper, Quicker Way to Get Mars Rocks and Soil to Earth

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to $11 billion. Administrator Bill Nelson presented a revised scenario Tuesday,

Engadget on MSN · 1d

NASA will decide how to bring soil samples back from Mars in 2026

NASA will analyze and explore two different landing options for its Mars Sample Return program, though it will take almost two years to do so and is expected to announce its decision in late 2026. The agency had to temporarily hit pause on the program after an independent review found that it could cost between $8 billion and $11 billion,

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab Evacuated

Space on MSN · 19h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab closed due to raging LA fires

The approaching Eaton wildfire has forced the closure of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, NASA's lead center for robotic planetary exploration.

Yahoo · 21h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab Evacuated as Los Angeles Burns

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, the agency's research and development center at the cutting edge of space exploration for decades, is officially under an evacuation order due to a spreading wildfire. Ironically,

WRAL · 13h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory evacuated amid wildfire worries

As the wildfires burn only a few miles away from the NASA facility, communities around northern parts of Los Angeles County are evacuated, NASA's specialized firefighters protect the facility.

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NASA Image Reveals Intense Cold Weather Across the US this Week

Temperatures dropped a low as -22 degrees F in the northern Midwest on January 6 due to a powerful winter storm.

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DeSantis proposes NASA headquarters in Florida, lauds new space consortium

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants NASA to relocate its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to the Kennedy Space Center in ...

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NASA lander to test vacuum cleaner on moon for sample collection

Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil ...

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NASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

NASA is calibrating new clocks so people can live on the moon

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have calculated a new system for measuring lunar time. While not needed ...

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NASA collected Mars rocks to haul to Earth. It still hasn’t decided how.

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

NASA Wants to Explore the Icy Moons of Jupiter and Saturn With Autonomous Robots

Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the ...

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Astronaut set to patch NASA's X-ray telescope aboard space station

NASA astronaut Nick Hague will install patches to the agency's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray ...

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