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NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag—and it’s colossal (arstechnica.com)

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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sigh. Yet another one-off mission with a price tag that will rival the total program cost of developing Starship.

[–] zhunk@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's hard to commit to someone like Astrobotic or Intuitive Machines until they prove their Lunar landers, but I would be really interested to see what they would propose for something like this.

Or revive Red Dragon?