An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the MSR strategy is in the works, saying that NASA will seek innovative new ...

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

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race ...

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

Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the table, according to NASA ... s Tianwen-3 mission might launch in 2028 to retrieve the Martian ...

NASA proposes a quicker, cost-effective plan to bring Mars samples to Earth by 2030, reducing the mission cost from $11 billion to around $7 billion.

NASA announced Tuesday it had narrowed down to two options the reworked Mars Sample Return mission aiming for a cheaper and quicker completion than the version that had been killed last year.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Nicky Fox, associate administrator for the space agency’s Science Mission ... samples out of Mars orbit and fly them back to Earth—is 2030.

However, the US space agency assumes that the final decision on the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission will not ... able to launch to Mars until 2030 or 2031. “NASA's rovers are braving the ...