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NASA needs a cheaper, faster way to bring Mars dirt back to Earth
Under the current plan, the samples return in 2040.
In a teleconference on Monday, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said that an independent review concluded that the agency’s current plan to bring the first samples collected by the Mars rover Perseverance could cost up to $11 billion and would likely not be achievable until 2040. The independent review, conducted last September, raised numerous concerns over the feasibility of NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission. NASA had originally estimated that the return mission’s launch would take place in 2027 or 2028,but the independent review concluded that this would be impossible due to “technical issues, risks, and performance-to-date.”
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