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NASA’s First Moon Buggy Since Apollo: Here’s What We Know So Far
Apollo astronauts drove around in a battery-powered space buggy, which was manually driven across the surface of the Moon. With its upcoming Artemis design, NASA wants to build a largely ...
A bumpy past month doesn't promise any soft landings
The past couple of weeks has offered us vivid examples in the news of two events, one of which I call a hard landing and ...
Private lunar lander is declared dead after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s ...
The Durango Herald2d
What’s next for Lunar Outpost’s rover mission after moon lander got stuck on its side
A Colorado-built moon rover set to notch up a number of historic firsts will not be completing its mission near the Lunar ...
Colorado Public Radio11d
Rover built in Colorado could be the first US robot to explore the moon, expected to land Thursday
Perhaps surprisingly, the U.S. has never sent a robotic rover to the moon before; the famous LRV moon buggy used during the ...
Kitsap Sun3d
A bumpy past month doesn't promise any soft landings
NASA mixed science and exploration. The last three landings even had a “moon buggy,” formally called a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). I remember watching the astronauts zipping around on the ...