Bringing back rocks from another planet will be the most ambitious thing that NASA has attempted since the Apollo program. Pursued in partnership with the European Space Agency, MSR is a key stepping stone in the path towards sending humans to Mars, and eventually to other places in the solar system.
Outsourcing some of the heavy lifting to companies such as SpaceX and Lockheed Martin could perhaps be a faster and cheaper way to bring MSR's precious cargo back home. But there's no avoiding the fact that doing big things in space is always expensive.
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