Before sending the first woman and next man to the moon, NASA will send a golf cart-sized rover to the lunar south pole to search for sources of ice water. The space agency hopes to have the rover exploring the moon’s surface by December 2022.
NASA is Sending a Rover to the Moon to Find Water for Astronauts
Oct 25, 2019 1:30 PMNov 19, 2019 3:58 PM
An artist illustration of NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER. (Credit: NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter)
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