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The Washington Post reports that NASA "has canceled its only lunar rover currently in development," Resource Prospector. From Wikipedia:
Resource Prospector is a cancelled mission concept by NASA of a rover that would have performed a survey expedition on a polar region of the Moon. The rover was to attempt to detect and map the location of volatiles such as hydrogen, oxygen and lunar water which could foster more affordable and sustainable human exploration to the Moon, Mars, and other Solar System bodies.
The mission concept was still in its pre-formulation stage, when it was scrapped in April 2018. The Resource Prospector mission was proposed to be launched in 2022.
takyon: Meanwhile, NASA is "pushing hard on deep space exploration" with the Moon as its goal.
Also at Space.com, The Verge, and Fortune.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @03:19AM (1 child)
"The mission" was going to be found out as a poorly made simulation, so they cancelled it.
They need to push harder to meet expectations of deep ass exploration, because that is all they are good at. Simulated space station, simulated launches, simulated moon landings, simulated moon exploration.
The reason for this cancellation is they are not sure nobody will find out it is CGI animation, and also if they can keep the lid on it and silence anyone involved.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday April 30 2018, @03:55AM
I want Moon landings. But I only want the best. I want them to look beautiful, with tremendous production values. Something our Country can be proud of!!!