Morning Overview on MSN

NASA’s bold new Mars gamble is unlike anything tried before

NASA has committed to running two competing landing architectures side by side for its Mars Sample Return mission, a strategy ...
Morning Overview on MSN

NASA’s crewed Mars mission may launch sooner than you think

NASA’s long-promised journey to Mars has often sounded like a hazy promise, safely parked in the “sometime in the 2030s” ...
SpaceNews

NASA to study two alternative architectures for Mars Sample Return

A photo montage showing sample tubes shortly after they were deposited onto the surface by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA will spend the next year ...
Mashable

NASA asked for cheaper ways to get Mars samples. It had one all along.

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through a mission proposal that is less expensive and technically complicated. Either change in the mission's design could ...
Space.com

NASA's Perseverance rover now has its own 'GPS' on Mars: 'We've given the rover a new ability'

Read a sci-fi short story every month and join a virtual community of fellow science fiction fans! NASA has given its ...
Ars Technica

NASA just lost contact with a Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one

NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...
insider.si.edu

Human exploration of Mars : Design Reference Architecture 5.0 / Mars Architecture Steering Group, NASA Headquarters ; Bret G. Drake, editor, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston ...

DVD disc with PDFs and video files inserted in envelope attached to inside back cover. Also available online in PDF format. NASM copy 39088019500958 gift of Alan Ladwig. The Mars Design Reference ...