NASA MSR review continues despite committee leadership change
NASA Space Technology WASHINGTON — NASA says it still expects to make a recommendation on a new architecture for the Mars Sample Return (MSR) program by the end of the year despite a change in leadership of a key review committee.At a Nov. 6 meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG), Jeff Gramling, MSR program director at NASA Headquarters, said a committee called the MSR Strategy Review Team, or MSR-SR, is scheduled to provide a recommendation on a “go-forward architecture” for MSR in December. That recommendation will go to Nicola Fox, NASA associate administrator for science, and then to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson for final approval.That was the same timeline that Gramling provided at an Oct. 21 meeting of a National Academies committee. That took place days after NASA announced the formation of...
