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NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

456 points · 391 comments · Muhammad523

peri-cl · 1790019864 · focus · HN ↗
This article only obliquely mentions in the last paragraphs, but there's a parallel Chinese program that recently brought back samples from the moon, and will attempt Mars sample return, launching in 2028,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianwen-3" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianwen-3
1. notabee · 1790020232 · focus · HN ↗
  Anyone wanting to be involved in the future of scientific research should probably start learning Mandarin. We're going the way of the Soviets, where political officers will quash any science that doesn't fit their ideology. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/trump-planning-to-hand-veto-power-over-nih-grants-to-political-appointee/" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/trump-planning-to-ha...
  1. gamblor956 · 1790022176 · focus · HN ↗
    where political officers will quash any science that doesn't fit their ideology
    China also does this. We just don't hear about it because they also quash the reporting.
    walrus01 · 1790022394 · focus · HN ↗
    Those responsible for reporting on the quashing of the reporting have been quashed.
    testing22321 · 1790024889 · focus · HN ↗
    You mean Like the Whitehouse press room today?
    walrus01 · 1790025213 · focus · HN ↗
    In the future of news, we'll have only OANN, Breitbart, Newsmax, and whatever that "newspaper" is that the Moonies run. Washington Times?
    I am sure this is nothing to be concerned about whatsoever.
    etc-hosts · 1790030051 · focus · HN ↗
    Epoch Times/Falun Dafa is sad you ignore them.

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