NASA Targets MSR Cost Reduction

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NASA on track to decide new approach for MSR by end of year

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NASA is on track to decide by the end of the year how to revise the Mars Sample Return (MSR) architecture.

The agency is looking for an architecture that gives us the highest likelihood of returning samples to Earth before 2040 and, if possible, for less than $11 billion .

An independent review team called the MSR Strategy Review , or MSR-SR , will evaluate all 12 studies.

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