Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL's Mars Sample Return mission
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After months of turmoil over the future of a vaunted mission to bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth, NASA has its verdict on Mars Sample Return. The space agency is “committed” to bringing those rocks back from Mars, Administrator Bill Nelson said Monday, but it will have to do it with way less money and in far less time than currently designed. And how exactly is NASA going to pull that off? Right now it has no idea — and it’s looking for someone who does. “I have asked our folks to...

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