Mars Sample Return Mission Faces Challenges, NASA IG Says

Artist's concept of multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples collected from the Mars surface by NASA's Mars Perseverance rover.

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA’s planned Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission faces significant obstacles as it strives to complete a reformulation that delivers a stable design with realistic cost and schedule estimates in a timely and effective manner, the agency’s inspector general (IG) says. The 50-page report,...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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