Can Rocket Lab save NASA’s mission to bring pieces of Mars to Earth?

An illustration of the Perseverance rover using its drill on a rock sample on Mars.

For more than three years, NASA’s Perseverance rover has roamed the Martian landscape, collecting bits and pieces of rock to be examined by scientists here on Earth. The space agency had come up with an elaborate plan to fly these samples from the Red Planet to Earth using a fleet of robots, but it later … Read more