Companies describe studies to revise Mars Sample Return - eviltoast
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    3 months ago

    Good point, actually the X-37B would make a lot of sense: it’s uncrewed, can obviously be up for a long period of time (years), and can go to pretty high orbits as well on a Falcon Heavy, plus it has an arm right? So it’d just be a question of getting the USSF on board

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        3 months ago

        I did some research and couldn’t find any evidence that it does. That could be a capability that the Space Force doesn’t want to be public though