Though Congress has not yet finalized appropriations for next year, NASA has instructed JPL to prepare for a federal budget that could cap Mars Sample Return spending in the 2024 fiscal year at ...

NASA has cited federal budget concerns as the reason for pumping the brakes on its Mars Sample Return mission meant to bring pieces of the Red Planet back to Earth in 2033, ...

The White House's proposed 2021 federal budget helps keep the ball rolling on one of planetary science's highest priorities, Mars sample-return, and funds development of a potential mission that ...

A Senate Appropriations Committee budget report is suggesting NASA cancel Mars Sample Return if the agency can't rein in the mission's growing costs.

NASA originally requested a budget of $949.3 million for the Mars Sample Return mission during its 2024 budget proposal. However, ...