NASA calls it quits for Mars mission, seeks help from startups l TechCrunch Minute

NASA is scrapping their $11 billion, 15-year Mars Sample Return Mission. The agency is shopping for a commercial partner to take on the challenge at a lower cost and on a quicker time frame-space startups are clamoring to throw their hat in the ring.
While the situation could be read as an admission by NASA that it's no longer feasible to take on these massive missions on its own, the move to preemptively opt for a leaner Mars program fueled by commercial ambitions seems to have no obvious downside. TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm discusses what this means for the space industry and the players-big and small-who are focusing on planetary research.
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[@louididdy]

High Rising Tone

[@AgraFarmsllc]

NASA just cleared the way for private startup companies to do it faster and cheaper. I for one will be throwing our proposals into the mix.

[@feanacar]

To be honest, we should clean up this planet before we start junking up another one

[@manywayz2be]

Or we learn from this and continue on. This planet will be destroyed in time. Wether humans speed it up. Earth will eventually be hit by a life ending asteroid, black hole, sun dies, our galaxy collides with amdromeda. Eventually earth will be no more in time. So we just move on.