The Mars Sample Return Mission is already getting expensive - can it survive a second independent review board? by AndyTomaswick
That’s where the third yet-to-be-designed component comes in – the Earth Return Orbiter. ESA is responsible for its overall design, though NASA will help provide some components to it. It will be responsible for rendezvousing with the MAV and getting the samples it contains back to Earth.
So much so that NASA recently convened a second independent review board for the project – a step it has never taken for a mission before. That independent review board can approve, limit, or even cancel the entire project. Part of its decision will be based on nuances of NASA’s budget. Even more budgetary woes come from the Decadal Survey for Planetary Science. While the Decadal “unequivocally” supported the MSR as the highest priority mission that NASA should work on, it suggested limiting the project’s budget to no more than 35% of the Planetary Science Division’s budget. Typically lawmakers accept the suggestions of the Decadal survey without asking any questions.
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