The proposed budget would also axe NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission, suggesting that the plan to return rocky samples from Mars by way of a fleet of robots can be carried out by a human mission ...

Addressing a meeting of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program Analysis ... nations could seize the opportunity to pull off sample-return missions of their own before the U.S. and its allies could ...

President Donald Trump's proposed NASA budget released Friday puts crewed missions to the Moon and Mars front and center -— ...

An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on the surface of the Red Planet. Perseverance is gathering samples for return to Earth in the 2030s, but proposed budget cuts could delay or ...

It would also cancel the Mars Sample Return mission, a joint project with the European Space Agency to bring back rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover and analyze them for signs of ...

"I appreciate the President's continued support for NASA's mission." The plan calls for ending the Mars Sample Return mission, which scientists have long considered crucial for understanding the Red ...

It would also cancel the Mars Sample Return mission, a joint project with the European Space Agency to bring back rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover and analyze them for signs of ...