{"id":135354,"date":"2022-02-08T13:24:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/nasa-selects-lockheed-martin-space-to-build-rocket-to-retrieve-first-samples-from-mars"},"modified":"2022-02-08T13:24:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:24:33","slug":"nasa-selects-lockheed-martin-space-to-build-rocket-to-retrieve-first-samples-from-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/nasa-selects-lockheed-martin-space-to-build-rocket-to-retrieve-first-samples-from-mars","title":{"rendered":"NASA Selects Lockheed Martin Space To Build Rocket To Retrieve First Samples From Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-selects-lockheed-martin-space-to-build-rocket-to-retrieve-first-samples-from-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The award brings NASA a step closer to the first robotic round trip to bring samples safely to Earth through the Mars Sample Return Program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado<b>,<\/b> to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small, lightweight rocket to launch rock, sediment, and atmospheric samples from the surface of the Red Planet. The award brings NASA a step closer to the first robotic round trip to bring samples safely to Earth through the Mars Sample Return Program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis groundbreaking endeavor is destined to inspire the world when the first robotic round-trip mission retrieves a sample from another planet \u2013 a significant step that will ultimately help send the first astronauts to Mars,\u201d NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said. \u201cAmerica\u2019s investment in our Mars Sample Return program will fulfill a top priority planetary science goal and demonstrate our commitment to global partnerships, ensuring NASA remains a leader in exploration and discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award brings NASA a step closer to the first robotic round trip to bring samples safely to Earth through the Mars Sample Return Program. NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small, lightweight rocket to launch rock, sediment, and atmospheric samples [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}