The launch marked a major milestone for Blue Origin, which was started by Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos in 2000. While the company's New Shepard spacecraft has made multiple launches, ...
In what appears to be a jab at NASA, Rocket Lab this week unveiled its own plan to return rock and dust samples the space agency has been collecting from Mars’ Jezero Crater since 2021.
which would carry them to orbit and rendezvous with yet another rocket for return to Earth, where yet another lander would return the samples to NASA and the European Space Agency for study.
With that in mind, Rocket Lab this week urged NASA to immediately launch an official commercial competition for MSR, and open up the project to competing bids. As Rocket Lab argues, other ...