Recent content by doofkcans

NASA needs to make a simple sample return landing first. Forget about grabbing caches, just dig nearby & launch with *lots* of telemetry. This will test out the basics of the return vehicle - almost all first launches of a new rocket have something go amiss. It would be foolish to place...

The samples left by Perseverance should be left to a future sample return mission. The first thing is to land a return launcher with a quickly shoved in sample, to test the return launcher with *lots* of diagnostics. First time rockets tend to fail, and this would be from a non-Earth like...