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Companies describe studies to revise Mars Sample Return

An illustration of the various elements of an earlier Mars Sample Return effort. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech LAS VEGAS — Companies selected by NASA to study alternative approaches to Mars Sample Return ...
Ars Technica

NASA is commissioning 10 studies on Mars Sample Return—most are commercial

NASA announced Friday that it will award contracts to seven companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, to study how to transport rock samples from Mars more cheaply back to Earth. The space agency ...

Scientists Tested Commercial Table Salt. Every Sample Contained Microplastics

Researchers identified mostly tiny plastic fragments, which are thought to come from degraded packaging, fishing gear, and ...
SpaceNews

NASA awards Rocket Lab study contract for Mars Sample Return

Rocket Lab's MSR study involves two Neutron launches of a sample retrieval lander and Earth return orbiter. Credit: Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — NASA has awarded a contract to Rocket Lab to study ...
The Boston Globe

Harvard has collected 3 million biological samples over decades. Now, researchers may not have the money to preserve them.

The clock is ticking for roughly 3 million biological samples preserved as part of a series of long-term health studies, many of which are housed in high-powered bio-freezers at Harvard’s T.H. Chan ...