The End State of NASA

This shows Rocket Lab’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) architecture, a look at an extremely ambitious commercial planetary science mission.

In my other blog posts I’ve done analysis on the commercial satellite launch market based on data and an understanding of economics and the industry. Now I’ll foray into the famously difficult to predict relm of government/politics/bureaucracy.

A more complete proof of the previous blog post

Peter beck MSR article: https://spacenews.com/bringing-mars-to-earth-solving-mars-sample-return/

Jared Isaacman thoughts: https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1915800015781429444