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NASA Drops $4.6B to Kick Off the Most Ambitious Moon Rover Program Ever

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NASA Drops $4.6B to Kick Off the Most Ambitious Moon Rover Program Ever

NASA is definitely going to try something entirely different after the Apollo astronauts folded up their small lunar ride and returned home fifty years later: large, strong, durable rovers that will enable astronauts to move up to one hundred kilometers over the lunar south pole, withstand two-week nights in the Arctic, and prepare the way for Mars. This time, the rovers won’t belong to NASA; private companies will own and operate them, while the agency simply buys rides, exactly the same revolutionary model that already sends astronauts to the ISS aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon. Here are the 14 main findings that illustrate how these future lunar trucks are being designed, tested, funded, and toughened.

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