NASA requests proposals to reduce cost, timeline of Mars Sample Return mission – Spaceflight Now

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NASA requests proposals to reduce cost, timeline of Mars Sample Return mission – Spaceflight Now

This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples of rocks and soil being collected from the Martian surface by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover.Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech NASA is going back to square one when it comes to many aspects of its Mars Sample Return mission in response to independent reviews that showed ballooning costs and significant schedule delays. The current architecture called fo…