NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is saying that we won't cannibalize other missions, for the return of samples. But the mission cost has doubled in the decade since launch of the rovers. And waiting for humans on Mars (circa 2040) is entirely too long to wait.
So, a request for proposals from private industry partners (cough! Musk / Space X) will be concluded by this Fall -- and the guideline will be "at or under" $5 billion, to return at least some of the samples (but perhaps not all 36 of them), by mid 2030. Now you know.
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