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 narrows down to 2 options its reworked Mars Sample Return mission
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.
Mars rock samples may contain evidence of alien life, but can NASA get them back to Earth?
NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance these samples contain evidence of alien life.
NASA hedges its bets on costly Mars rock mission
NASA has decided it's going to pursue parallel missions to attempt to retrieve samples of rock on Mars collected by rovers.
NASA’s plans to get Mars rocks delivered to the Utah desert are changing
Bringing Martian rock and soil samples to Earth is among the top priorities of planetary scientists. By studying fresh rocks up close with the latest, most powerful instruments in their laboratories,
NASA faces delays in martian rock return mission
The Perseverance rover has collected Martian rock samples in two distinct ways, which NASA believes might contain evidence of extraterrestrial life. This mission has been underway since 2021, with rocks and sediments gathered from the ancient lakebed on Mars.
Nasa reveals new plan to bring soil samples from Mars back to Earth
Nasa has unveiled a revised plan to bring samples from the surface of Mars back to Earth. The space agency has announced it would be pursuing two potential options, both costing around $7billion, to retrieve rock and soil samples currently being collected by the Perseverance rover - dramatically reducing the mission's cost from $11bn and
Large hole seen in Mission Beach after water main break
Crews responded to a water main break underneath a roadway in Mission Beach Wednesday evening, said an official with the City ...
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Blue Ghost Mission 1 will send the first U.S. lander to Mare Crisium
With 10 instruments and technology tests, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...
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SpaceX to launch Starship megarocket's Flight 7 test mission on Jan. 13
SpaceX aims to launch Starship Flight 7 on Monday (Jan. 13), an ambitious test that will feature an attempted launch-tower ...
India launches its first space docking mission
India launched its first space docking mission on Monday, on an Indian-made rocket, in an attempt to become the fourth ...
Man charged with murder in San Francisco New Year's deadly shooting in Mission District
Prosecutors in San Francisco have charged the man suspected in a New Year's Day deadly shooting with murder, the district ...
After drift setback, ISRO’s SpaDex mission ready for another docking attempt today
The two satellites launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for a space docking experiment may soon attain ...
Prologis, Caltrain eye 850-foot tower in SF’s Mission Bay
The mixed-use skyscraper would be part of 4th and King Street Station railyard redevelopment at 700 Fourth Street.
A mother's mission to stop jaundice causing cerebral palsy in Nigeria
As a baby, he was abandoned by his parents but 10 years ago, he found a home at the Cerebral Palsy Centre in the Nigerian ...