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NASA's Doomed Mars Sample Return Mission Sees Hope In $3B Offer From Lockheed Martin
Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has proposed a new, relatively cheaper plan that could save NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) ...
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Could NASA's Mars Sample Return be saved? Lockheed Martin proposes $3 billion plan to haul home Red Planet rocks (video)
In addition to its Mars expertise, the company noted that it designed and built the spacecraft and return capsules for all ...
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NASA Programs in Budget Crosshairs: What’s Thriving and What’s Struggling?
White House takes aim at several projects failing to meet cost and schedule estimates—and several more that aren’t.
Lockheed Martin Wants To Bring Mars Rover's Samples To Earth If NASA Can't
While originally conceived as an in-house job, NASA has since realized that its version of the plan would cost at least $7 ...
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Why collect asteroid samples? 4 essential reads on what these tiny bits of space rock can tell scientists
REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber Mary Magnuson, Collecting asteroid samples China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this ...
When the sky falls: Why and how we track dangerous asteroids
From the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs to one that nearly hit Moscow, space rocks have shaped our history. Could we ...