Mars Exploration Strategies: Forget About Sample Return

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Jul 2000

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Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration, p. 243

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Mars Exploration, Mars Missions, Failure, Cancellation, Mission Planning, Losses, Mars Sample Return Missions, Mars Polar Lander, Mars Climate Orbiter

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During the past months, loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander spacecraft have received considerable attention. In reality, NASA's toll of lost missions during this period has been much higher due to the cancellation of the Mars 2001 lander mission and the failure to plan a credible Mars sample return mission. NASA has commissioned a number of internal and independent investigations which have focused on the technical and management failures that were responsible for the failures of the '98 missions. However, the even more serious setbacks that the future missions in the Mars Surveyor Program are experiencing have not received the same degree of critical attention. In this paper, I attempt to identify some of the key science strategy issues relating to these problems, and suggest returning to a strategy for Mars exploration that is more closely aligned with reason, risk avoidance, and reality.

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