For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA has selected the landing site for the agency’s first ever lunar rover named VIPER – the robot is an ice prospecting lunar rover targeted for touchdown on the Moon’s south pole after liftoff in 2023 using a commercial rocket and commercial lunar lander. VIPER is a mobile robot that will roam
Orbit Beyond of Edison,New Jersey, had proposed to fly as many as four payloads to a lava plain in one of the Moon’s craters under the NASA CLPS commercial lunar lander program until contract was terminated on July 29, 2019. Credits: Orbit Beyond Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 30 July 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Effective immediately NASA