Foust Forward | Who gets the final word on Mars Sample Return?

An illustration of the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) that will transport gathered Martian samples from the surface to orbit, where it will rendezvous with another spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

By the end of this year, NASA may have a new plan in place for returning samples from Mars. The agency announced in October that it had convened an outside […]

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