
NASA’s VIPER robotic Moon rover in a clean room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Credit: Josh Valcarcel/NASA
Rising costs and technical challenges have prompted NASA to cancel a commercially partnered, groundbreaking Moon mission to robotically survey the lunar south pole for subsurface water ice, a potential life support resource for future human explorers that also could be mined and processed into...
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