NEWS: NASA eyes SpaceX, Blue Origin to cut Mars rock retrieval costs

NASA eyes SpaceX, Blue Origin to cut Mars rock retrieval costs

This NASA photo released on February 24, 2021, shows images from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater on February 21, 2021.
Photo: Handout / NASA/JPL-CALTECH/AFP/File
Source: AFP

NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk’s SpaceX or Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of returning Martian rocks collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth.

Originally planned to deliver 30 sample tubes to Earth by the 2030s, the Mars Sample Return mission has…

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