After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock ...

See how the Sample Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return mission will work in this animation. Credit: ESA/NASA ...

White House moves to cancel Nasa’s flagship Mars sample return programme amid sweeping budget cuts would leave China’s Tianwen-3 mission – set to deliver around 600 grams (21 ounces ...

Last week, reports started making rounds online about how the Trump administration could cut NASA's science budget ... anticipated missions like Mars Sample Return (MSR), and perhaps even ...

With recent cuts to Mars Sample Return, China will lead the charge to Mars and to the moon. Credit: NASA In the Senate hearing considering the confirmation of Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator ...

President Donald Trump's proposed NASA budget released Friday puts ... It would also cancel the Mars Sample Return mission, a joint project with the European Space Agency to bring back rock ...

The release of NASA's latest budget reveals the Orion ... The top candidate for cancellation is the Mars Sample Return mission budgeted at up to $11 billion that would not fly until the middle ...

NASA's overall budget, including science programs, faces cuts, with the Mars Sample Return mission slated for termination. Funding for human space exploration will see an increase, with a focus on ...

As such, Tice looks forward to NASA's planned Mars Sample Return mission to conduct further research on the volcanic rock.

NASA's overall budget, including science programs, faces cuts, with the Mars Sample Return mission slated for termination. The days of NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket and Orion space ...