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Mike Wehner
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NASA's Perseverance rover successfully touched down on the Red Planet roughly two weeks ago. In the days since its arrival, it has been testing its various systems and instruments in preparation for beginning to tackle its science objectives. One of those objectives is to gather Mars material samples and prepare them for eventual return to Earth. The rover itself can't accomplish that second half of the task, but now we know how NASA plans to make it happen.
In a new post on NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory website, the space agency reveals that it has awarded a massive contract worth as much as $84.5 million to... oh no... please, don't tell me... ugh, yep, it's Northrop Grumman. The same Northrop Grumman that NASA gave $500 million to for the development of the James Web Space Telescope which was supposed to launch in 2007 and still hasn't seen a launchpad. Great. We're never getting those Mars samples back.
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We finally know how NASA is going to get its Mars samples back originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 5 Mar 2021 at 23:18:11 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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