Aug 6, 2026 | Journal
On August 6, 2026, CNSA announced that China will build a dedicated planetary protection laboratory to handle samples returned by its Tianwen-3 Mars mission. The facility is designed to prevent both forward contamination (Earth microbes hitchhiking to Mars) and...
Aug 3, 2026 | Journal
The multi-billion-dollar tubes sitting in Jezero Crater have become a monument to architectural fragility. When the Congressional FY2026 spending bill locked in NASA's Mars Sample Return cancellation, it did more than zero out a line item—it stranded roughly $2...
