NASA is looking to simplify a multispacecraft campaign to return samples from Mars while also preserving its partnership with the European Space Agency, which is developing an orbiter (pictured), to fly the samples from Mars to Earth.
Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC
NASA is aiming to complete reviews by year-end of 11 proposals from inside and outside the agency to cut costs and speed up the return of samples collected by the ongoing Perseverance rover mission on Mars. “We think we’re going to be able to come forward with a plan,” Jeff Gramling, director of the...
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