** Space company Rocket Lab's shares rise 5% to $10.29 premarket
** RKLB says it has been selected by NASA to complete a study for retrieving rock samples from Mars and bringing them to Earth for the first time
** Financial details of the contract were not disclosed
** "Results of this study will inform a potential update to NASA's Mars Sample Return Program and may result in future procurements with industry"- RKLB
** Co says its study will be delivered for a fraction of current projected program cost and completed several years earlier than the current expected sample return date of 2040
** Nine of 14 brokerages rate the stock "buy" or higher, 5 "hold"; their median PT is $7 - LSEG
** RKLB up ~77.2% YTD
(Reporting by Arsheeya Bajwa in Bengaluru)
((ArsheeyaSingh.Bajwa@thomsonreuters.com; +91 8510015800;))
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