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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: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday April 30 2018, @07:57PM (1 child)
The problem isn't the scientists and engineers, it's the managers. The former would be an asset to any country's space program; the latter should be blacklisted, and any country dumb enough to hire them (I really mean the higher-up managers here, the low-level managers are probably fine, and have no control over this political BS) deserves whatever happens to them.
(Score: 1) by suburbanitemediocrity on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:13AM
The problem is that they don't have a mission everyone can agree on like "Landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth".
Space Shuttle, ISS, Venus colony, silly putty in space experiments, Mars colony, unmanned exploration, mars rover, Pluto probe, manned missions, Europa sub marine, solar probes, etc all compete for special project funding.