Unlocking the mysteries of the Red Planet, Intuitive Machines plans to aid NASA in the ambitious endeavor of returning samples from Mars. During a quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, executives at ...
NASA could get Mars samples back to Earth with a single launch of the Space Launch System rocket, Boeing says. Boeing has put forward its own idea to help NASA get its Mars Sample Return project ...
Hundreds of millions of miles away, on the frigid surface of Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover is hard at work, diligently gathering fresh samples of Martian rock, sealing them in pristine tubes ...
NASA is looking for ways to get rock samples back from Mars for less than the $11 billion the agency would need under its own plan, so last month, officials put out a call to industry to propose ...
Intuitive Machines is looking to help reshape the Mars Sample Return mission architecture with its own technology, based on architecture it has been developing for the moon, executives told ...
A Mars Ascent Vehicle is depicted on the planet’s surface. Credit: Boeing It may seem counterintuitive to use NASA’s pricey Space Launch System rocket to cut the cost of an over-budget ...
Mars has a distinct structure in its mantle and crust with discernible reservoirs, and this is known thanks to meteorites that scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and ...
On Episode 112 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with Rob Manning, Chief Engineer Emeritus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, about Mars exploration and, in particular, Mars Sample Return.
May 16 (UPI) --NASA and the European Space Agency will search together for signs of life on Mars, the U.S. space administration announced Thursday. They will collaborate on the ExoMars Rosalind ...
Astrobiology is the field of science that studies the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. In practice, this means sending robotic missions beyond Earth to analyze ...
During a quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, executives at Intuitive Machines revealed their plans to contribute to the Mars Sample Return mission architecture using their lunar technology.
A 25-tonne lander and an 11-tonne return vehicle?? Wouldn't it be far more efficient (cheaper!) to have a low-mass lander and ascent vehicle with an orbiter/return vehicle? Even with Mars' lower ...