NASA Cancels VIPER Lunar Rover, Citing Schedule And Cost Issues
NASA’s VIPER spacecraft, designed to search the lunar regolith for water ice and other volatiles, was assembled in a clean room at the Johnson Space Center.
Credit: Bill Stafford/NASA
Scientists were shocked by NASA’s sudden cancellation of the Resource Prospector mission in 2018, a program designed to follow up on findings of water ice on the Moon with a sophisticated rover to scout the surface. A year later, NASA made good on its pledge to repurpose the instruments in a new...
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