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    Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL's Mars Sample Return mission

    After months of turmoil over the future of a vaunted mission to bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth, NASA has its verdict on Mars Sample Return. The space agency is "committed" to bringing those rocks back from Mars, administrator Bill Nelson said Monday, but will have to do it with way less money and in far less time than currently designed. And how exactly is NASA going to pull ...
    by Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times Apr 15, 2024 3 minutes
    Tubes holding samples of rock cores, broken rock and dust collected by NASA's Perseverance rover sit on the surface of Mars.

    After months of turmoil over the future of a vaunted mission to bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth, NASA has its verdict on Mars Sample Return.

    The space agency is "committed" to bringing those rocks back from Mars, administrator Bill Nelson said Monday, but will have to do it with way less money and in far less time than currently designed.

    And how exactly is NASA going to pull that off? Right now it has no idea — and

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