NASA is revising its Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, led by Administrator Bill Nelson, in response to an independent review that highlighted the prohibitive costs and extended timelines associated with the current mission design. The review estimated the program could cost up to $11 billion, prompting NASA to seek alternatives to reduce the budget to approximately $5.9 billion, as originally recommended in the NSF Decadal Survey. The agency is now soliciting ideas from JPL, other NASA centers, and the private sector for more cost-effective and timely mission designs, involving samples collected by the Perseverance rover. Although launches were initially planned for the 2027-2028 timeframe, the new goal is to ensure the return of samples in the 2030s, rather than 2040 or later.
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NASA: 'New plan needed to return rocks from Mars.' https://t.co/PDAwYvUqBH
NASA's administrator, Bill Nelson, said the agency is seeking new ideas to retrieve rock and soil samples from Mars in a faster and more affordable way. https://t.co/ztYo0bCOx4
The agency will seek new ideas for its Mars Sample Return program, expected to be billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. https://t.co/E5RO7ynTFm
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NASA is seeking a cheaper, simpler approach to one of its top science priorities in the midst of a budget crunch - retrieving precious soil samples collected on Mars and flying them back to Earth, US space agency officials said https://t.co/6rTtMLsZ4v
NASA said they will seek fresh ideas for alternative mission designs to reign in sky-rocketing costs and get precious Mars samples back to Earth sooner. https://t.co/blIeaNL2vw
SpaceX will land people on Mars before NASA gets that "sample return" mission off the planet. https://t.co/dKFfCYrthZ https://t.co/cwAbIXVSVx
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NASA seeks cheaper ideas for Mars sample return mission amid budget crunch https://t.co/DFFHOBVsEo https://t.co/GY7Rxn1khO
NASA announced Monday it is dramatically overhauling its highly anticipated but troubled mission to bring pieces of Mars back to Earth, a move that experts say puts the project on life support. https://t.co/mmuwKUyE4o
.@NASA is seeking a cheaper, simpler approach to one of its top science priorities in the midst of a budget crunch - retrieving precious soil samples collected on Mars and flying them back to Earth, US space agency officials said on Monday. https://t.co/QqaUfYXWW4
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.@NASA's cuts to the Mars Sample Return program will eviscerate the top priority of scientists, result in hundreds of lost jobs, and be disastrous for our future in space exploration. We must force NASA to reverse course.
NASA is seeking a faster, cheaper way to bring Mars samples to Earth https://t.co/Jo7pgoiDnv
The Mars Sample Return mission previously envisioned a team of robots retrieving samples collected by @NASA’s Perseverance rover. Citing a budget shortfall, the agency is now soliciting ideas for faster and cheaper approaches. https://t.co/mB04ksJJOg
The Mars Sample Return mission previously envisioned a team of robots retrieving samples collected by @NASA’s Perseverance rover. Citing a budget shortfall, is now soliciting ideas for faster and cheaper approaches. https://t.co/bhSWGoCWJT
NASA said Monday it was looking for ways to bring Martian rocks collected by the Perseverance rover back to Earth earlier and at a lower cost than planned after facing criticism for going massively over budget https://t.co/Hm1FNqPVc0
NASA needs a cheaper, faster way to bring Mars dirt back to Earth https://t.co/bUUpRZJ2Mr
NASA rethinks plan to return rare Mars samples to Earth. Read below: https://t.co/aOldhLsMM1
NASA Asks for Help in Bringing Back Mars Samples After Mission Becomes Too Expensive https://t.co/zUaMdSXM83 https://t.co/SahL0CKNQg
Nasa: 'New plan needed to return rocks from Mars' https://t.co/IH0Jv6Hk8N
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NASA asks: Can anyone help us get our Mars samples back? https://t.co/5FicPduQ59
Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL's Mars Sample Return mission https://t.co/qEw1XTaAUe
Responding to an independent review of NASA's ambitious Mars Sample Return mission, agency officials said they will seek fresh ideas for alternative mission designs to reign in sky-rocketing costs and get the precious samples back to Earth earlier. https://t.co/gNxrS43vhz
NASA's Mars sample return plan is getting a revamp: 'The bottom line is that $11 billion is too expensive' https://t.co/mpqEQvwIgb https://t.co/8IpGAZIQTa
NASA announced it is revising plans for its Mars Sample Return mission due to the estimated cost and long wait time for samples to return to Earth. https://t.co/XNGTSWvZVD
As Sagan said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." In turn, Mars Sample Return requires innovation. In response to September's independent review board, we're rising to the challenge of an updated mission design to attempt to get samples back sooner, cheaper,… https://t.co/6tkVhOmnvr
MSR: The independent review board concluded the current MSR program could cost up to $11 billion; NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said that was too much; he said the goal is to bring the cost down to around the $5.9 billion cited in the original NSF Decadal Survey that recommended…
MSR: NASA is not ruling out launches in the '27-'28 timeframe as currently planned, but it appears extremely unlikely at this point. The goal of the program redesign is to ensure samples are returned in the 2030s, and not in 2040 or beyond as suggested by current funding…
MSR: Responding to an independent review of the Mars Sample Return mission, NASA said today the agency will seek fresh ideas from JPL, other NASA centers and the private sector to come up with alternative mission designs to reign in sky-rocketing costs, to streamline management…
NASA are announcing their decision on the Mars Sample Return program today, and here (courtesy of a press release) are the key points: -It’s too expensive and a 2040 return is too far away -We aren’t sure how to make it cheaper and get the samples sooner https://t.co/C6ZZGpGwMp
We’re live now with @SenBillNelson and @NASAScienceAA as they provide an update on the Mars Sample Return program: https://t.co/8KsJNki6Pq https://t.co/pUqDUAnKyg
We're hosting a media teleconference at 1pm ET (1700 UTC) on April 15 to discuss next steps for the Mars Sample Return program following an independent review board report from September 2023: https://t.co/AuDmrfCktm https://t.co/yNg2C1GumP
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