One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions

What is not controversial is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. NASA’s best communications relay today is the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which ...

Will NASA’s SkyFall Mars helicopter fleet sink science at the Red Planet?

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could ...
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Mars Sample Return mission in jeopardy, Lockheed Martin thinks it can still be done

Companies in the space industry set up their displays for the Space Symposium at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs on Saturday, April 11, 2026. (The Gazette, Michael G. Seamans) When it landed on Mars ...
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China Will Bring Back Samples of Mars Before the U.S., Tianwen 3 Mission Goes Up in 2028

For several years now the biggest space agencies in the Western world have been struggling to get going the Mars Sample Return mission, perhaps the most ambitious robotic space mission ever undertaken ...

OSIRIS-REx bringing asteroid samples to Earth - NASA explains

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...