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NASA rethinks plan to return rare Mars samples to Earth

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SpaceNews

NASA to look for new options to carry out Mars Sample Return program

WASHINGTON — NASA will seek “out of the box” ideas in a bid to reduce the costs and shorten the schedule for returning samples from Mars. In an April 15 briefing, agency officials announced they would ...
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 ...
SpaceNews

House bill would fully fund Mars Sample Return, block cooperation on ExoMars

WASHINGTON — House appropriators would fully fund NASA’s Mars Sample Return program despite its ongoing problems but halt the agency’s plans to cooperate with a European Mars mission. House ...
Orange County Register

NASA says JPL’s Mars rocks return program is too costly; leaders want ‘revised plan’

Bringing Mars rocks back to earth costs too much, said NASA’s chief administrator on Monday, April 15, adding that the financially strapped, multi-billion-dollar planned mission managed by Pasadena’s ...