NASA Wants Spacecraft For Mars Return Trip

coondoggie writes "If we ever do get to Mars, getting home might prove to be as difficult. NASA today selected three companies — Alliant Techsystems, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman — to being the task of defining the spacecraft that will leave Mars, presumably at first loaded with red planet rock samples, then later possibly humans — for a safe trip back to Earth. The engineering challenges those three companies face are immense."

Comments

We better not get double billed

[Anonymous Coward]

We don't pay for any bids that specify the same ship design be used for the return as was used during the departure.