Space.com

NASA's troubled Mars sample-return mission has scientists seeing red

Projected multibillion-dollar overruns have some calling the agency's plan a 'dumpster fire.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.
Space.com

Could NASA's Mars Sample Return be saved? Lockheed Martin proposes $3 billion plan to haul home Red Planet rocks (video)

The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...
Ars Technica

NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket

NASA is looking for ways to get rock samples back from Mars for less than the $11 billion the agency would need under its own plan, so last month, officials put out a call to industry to propose ideas ...
Ars Technica

NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag—and it’s colossal

During his final months as the chief of NASA’s science programs last year, there was one mission Thomas Zurbuchen fretted about more than any other—the agency’s ambitious plan to return rocks from ...
UPI

NASA seeks help from private companies for expensive Mars Sample Return mission

April 25 (UPI) --A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from $5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return ...