What’s Wrong with the Mars Sample Return Mission?

Please don’t give up on this channel like you threatened on the last Brain Blaze video. I enjoy this a lot. I strive to watch everything on every channel that you do except maybe some of the more terrifying Casual Criminalist videos. I wish the very best of health and happiness to you and your families!

The amount of edits in this video almost rivals the amount of channels Simon has

I am now finally convinced that this channel only exists to make Uranus jokes. I love it.

He said it again. " Probe Uranus"😅 That never gets old 😅

Really hope it's not cancelled. I have been waiting for years for the return mission. Keep my fingers crossed.

On February 7, JPL laid off 540 regular employees and an additional 40 contractors--over 8% of their workforce, due to MSR budget uncertainties.

EDI: Really? Commander? Sheppard: launches probe EDI: Sighs* Probing Uranus...

The problem with sending analysis equipment there is not just that we can’t send our best technology, but we have no idea what tech will be available in the coming years or decades. If we have the samples here we can keep studying them with whatever tech comes along. Who cares if it costs three times as much to bring it back? Worth it.

Just found this channel. Glad to see another quality channel of Simon’s ever expanding YouTube empire. PS, I’d love to see a video on Leica, the first dog in space 🤞

American Space Prowess! That's what my husband and I play on Friday nights!

i just discovered this channel! another simon channel i need to binge watch lmao

When the small rover landed on Mars in 1997, NASA engineers claimed that a sample return was the next step and it seemed that 2005 was a long time to wait for a sample return.

I mean... yes.. we want nasa to do cool science. So i respect planetary scientists opinions on how valuable or not valuable it would be to return mars rocks. However.... Where nasa shines is not in just a vehicle for your cool rover. Where nasa has always been on its best is taking on new and difficult challenges. And pave the way for future missions. I don't think you could over value several of the firsts in these missions. But i do agree there should be a strong purpose behind it. Maybe there needs to be some simplification. Or whatever. But like being able to have the first launch from another planet. Thats huge. Learning to manage long running complex missions. Thats huge. I get we do some of this already with the space station. But this setup for this mission.. if we want space mining. If we want space infrastructure and other like things. Its going to require things like this. Regardless if this is the right use, we should be doing more things like this right now. Not in 20 years. We should have been doing things like this 30 years ago.

Loving the new channel Simon and the team keep it up 😊

Thanks for sharing.

They should build that quarantine facility now regardless of the mission being approved or not. One way or another samples from objects in space WILL someday fairly soon happen. Having that contamination level 4 structure completed will provide a prepared location to bring those samples.

As a fellow scientist. I'm always curious about space. But im hoping to see more missions to the depths of our planet the older I get. I won't live long enough to learn to secrets of our planteriry niebours.

I have to agree with other sentiments, please don't give up on this channel. I always cross my fingers that this channel has released something, almost more than any other of your channels aside from the Science of Science Fiction (whatever it's called these days lol) or maybe Casual Criminalist! Upload more here and I'm sure the numbers will come!!

Most if not all of major projects underestimate to get them off the ground.

Another day, another Simon channel discovered