A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth.

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The Perseverance rover is building up a stash of rocks on Mars that could contain the first ... in the words of the agency's administrator, Bill Nelson. After a series of delays, the cost ...

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to $11 billion. Administrator Bill Nelson presented a revised scenario ...

Bill Nelson has stepped down as NASA administrator ... President Trump wants astronauts to raise the American flag on Mars In 1990, Nelson tried to become the Democratic nominee in the Florida ...

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During a Jan. 7 press conference, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson conceded that costs have ... to fly the long-awaited mission to collect the Mars rover’s sample tubes. “As that plan had ...

With the revisions, Mars Sample Return is still expensive, but would be less than $8 billion. “That’s a far cry from $11 billion,” Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator, said Tuesday.

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.