NASA’s Moon Water Ice Hunt To Press On After VIPER Cancellation

Artist's concept of VIPER.

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA’s cancellation of the VIPER mission to the Moon’s south pole to seek subsurface water ice is a setback, but not the end of the agency’s search for insitu resources in establishing a sustainable human lunar presence. The termination of the cost-and-schedule-challenged Volatiles...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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