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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.
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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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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 ...
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NASA Abandons Moon Rover After Spending Half a Billion Dollars on It
Griffin will still conduct a Moon landing with a mass simulator in the rover's place, as a demonstration of its capabilities, for which NASA will pay the firm $323 million. VIPER, meanwhile ...
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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.
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Inside the scramble to save NASA’s half-billion-dollar, water-hunting moon rover
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Opinion - Opinion - 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.