While originally conceived as an in-house job, NASA has since realized that its version of the plan would cost at least $7 ...

The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

NASA spending measures are tucked inside the bill that can best be described as ugly, or at the very least ill-advised.

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin offered to "execute Mars Sample Return (MSR) as a firm-fixed price solution for under $3 ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission may get a reprieve from an unexpected source. Lockheed Martin has proposed a ...

NASA's initiatives to pioneer next-generation space technologies are also hit hard in the White House's budget proposal. If the Trump administration gets its way, NASA's Space Technology Mission ...

Mars Advocates, Lawmakers, Industry Groups Decry NASA Budget Proposal ‘Skinny’ budget opponents argue cuts to science and other programs will derail U.S. leadership in human spaceflight.

More than $10 billion in funds are included in Trump’s tax and spending bill for NASA programs previously targeted by the ...

For its proposal, Lockheed Martin suggests using MAVEN (short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN). The NASA spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, launched in 2013 to study Mars ...

From the initial proposals, NASA had commissioned studies from eight companies, which included aerospace giants like Lockheed Martin as well as two newer rocket companies led by billionaires ...

(NASA Illustration) In June, NASA said it would explore alternative concepts for Mars sample return missions and would fund concept studies by seven industry proposers.