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NASA Built And Paid For A Lunar Rover But Scraps It And Replaces It With Empty Weight On Upcoming Mission. Now Scientists Have Petitioned Congress To Stop N…
The NASA deputy associate administrator for exploration, Joel Kearns, gave a presentation where he talked about the decision.
NASA VIPER Moon Rover Prototype Rolls Down Ramp In Tests On Earth
Watch a prototype of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, (VIPER) roll down a ramp to simulate its ...
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NASA can save its VIPER rover with private-sector help
When NASA canceled its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) project, it reached out to private companies to see if anyone in the commercial sector could complete the mission.
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NASA Scrapping Finished $450 Million Moon Rover, Will Send Dead Weight "Simulator" to Moon in Its Place
NASA's $450 million lunar explorer, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), will not be going to the Moon. Something else will be taking its place, though — and given the ...
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NASA’s axed moon rover could be resurrected by Intuitive Machines
Illustration of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) on the surface of the Moon NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter / NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter Lunar scientists were shocked and ...
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NASA scraps its VIPER project that aimed to look for ice on the moon
NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover or VIPER was going to look for water ice at the moon's south pole. The agency was hoping that it could help answer important questions ...
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NASA Killed America's First Robotic Moon Rover, VIPER Might Still Fly for Others
When it announced it is killing the project, NASA hinted there was no chance in hell the VIPER would ever fly to the Moon in complete form. That's why the agency announced it will strip the ...
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Intuitive Machines May Take Over NASA's Canceled VIPER Moon Rover
The scientific community responded with surprise last month when NASA announced it would halt work on the VIPER lunar rover due to a budget shortfall. The rover, already complete and undergoing ...
Richmond1mon
Inside the scramble to save NASA’s half-billion-dollar, water-hunting moon rover
But VIPER may not make it off the surface of Earth. Citing budgetary concerns, NASA announced last month it was canceling plans to put VIPER on the moon — even though the agency has spent years ...
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Runaway Spending … in Space
Earlier this year, NASA’s most advanced lunar rover—the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover or VIPER—seemed to be on track to the moon. Engineers integrated the VIPER’s final ...
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Opinion - NASA can save its VIPER rover with private-sector help
When NASA canceled its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) project, it reached out to private companies to see if anyone in the commercial sector could complete the mission.
Opinion - NASA can save its VIPER rover with private-sector help
The prospect of VIPER becoming more of a public/private partnership illustrates the great advantage of a thriving commercial ...