The space agency needs an additional $250 million this fiscal year to make sure the Martian mission stays on schedule to launch in 2028.
one of the most complex missions the space agency has ever attempted. The mission is a joint effort between NASA and the European Space Agency, and it entails collecting rock samples that haveon the Martian surface and returning them to Earth. In order to do that, a fleet of spacecraft, including an orbiter, lander, two helicopters, and a rocket, will be assembled and sent to the Red Planet.
The mission received $822.3 million in the 2023 spending bill and NASA requested $949.3 million for Mars Sample Return in itsission is getting a portion of the total funding for science, which adds up to $8.26 billion in the 2024 budget. In 2020, NASA and ESA that the mission would require at least $7 billion in total. There are concerns, however, that the actual cost of the mission will
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