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Blue Origin wins NASA deal to ferry VIPER rover to lunar south pole
NASA's water-ice prospecting mission is getting a second life with Blue Origin.
The contract also means that the VIPER rover will finally see the lunar surface after NASA shelved the entire program last year due to delays and cost overruns. One month later, NASA issued a request for ideas from U.S. companies to explore ways to put the existing rover to work without adding additional costs to the government. The results are key to NASA’s future science goals and to any long-term human presence on the moon, where extracting resources in-situ – rather than hauling them from Earth – will be critical.
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