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A Revolutionary, Low-Cost Asteroid Mission Is Now in Danger From NASA Cutbacks
The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them, the cancellation of a mission titled OSIRIS-APEX, and it’s frankly ...
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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)
Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new proposal to take over NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission for less than half the ...
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An Innovative Spacecraft Makes Contact With an Asteroid
In this digital rendering, OSIRIS-REx extends its sampling arm as it moves in to make contact with the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Goddard Dante Lauretta grew up hiking and camping in the Arizona desert ...
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) ...
Smithsonian Magazine22d
An Innovative Spacecraft Makes Contact With an Asteroid
On September 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx capsule brought rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu to Earth, a triumph for which Lauretta had devoted 16 years of his life.