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Rocket Lab Awarded NASA Study Contract to Explore Bringing Rock Samples from Mars to Earth for the First Time
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has been selected by NASA to complete a study for retrieving rock samples from Mars and bringing them to Earth for the first time. This mission, part of NASA's Mars Sample Return Program, aims to revolutionize our understanding of Mars and potentially answer questions about past life on the planet.
Rocket Lab's study will explore a simplified, end-to-end mission conceptthat could be delivered at a fraction of the current projected program cost and completed several years earlier than the expected 2040 return date. The company's proposed mission architecture will be revealed once the study is complete in the coming months.
Rocket Lab's founder and CEO, Sir Peter Beck, highlighted the company's unique suitability for this task, citing their experience in cost-effective planetary science missions, including delivering a NASA mission to the Moon, enabling orbital operations, and successfully re-entering a capsule from orbit to Earth.
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