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TechCrunch Space: Engineering the future

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Don't worry – we'll be diving into the Mars Sample Return news shortly.

This week’s SOTW segment is dedicated to Mars Sample Return, NASA’s troubled and ambitious plan to bring Martian rock and dust back to Earth. NASA administrator Bill Nelson has pronounced the agency’s $11 billion, 15-year plan to collect and return samples from Mars insufficient. Young, Commander of the Apollo 16 mission, with the Lunar Roving Vehicle at the Descartes landing site.

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