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SpaceflightEnglish · 8 months ago

NASA to look for new options to carry out Mars Sample Return program

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NASA to look for new options to carry out Mars Sample Return program

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SpaceflightEnglish · 8 months ago

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NASA will seek “out of the box” ideas in a bid to reduce the costs and shorten the schedule for returning samples from Mars.

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Bring back Red Dragon
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  Not sure how it’d take off back to orbit, but Red Dragon would have been so dang cool!
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    It would’ve had a separate little Mars Ascent Vehicle
    
    https://www.space.com/30504-spacex-red-dragon-mars-sample-return.html
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      Can’t believe I haven’t seen that part! Thanks for sharing. This sounds like such a reasonable plan.

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