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NASA cancels $450M mission to drill for ice on the Moon
The already-built rover could now be scrapped for parts.
But delays building the rover and the commercial lander that would deliver it to the Moon pushed the launch date into late 2025, with an estimated cost rise of $176 million, according to Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for exploration at NASA in the science directorate. “The fact that they would disassemble a fully complete rover that’s currently in testing, that was pretty surprising,” says Benjamin Greenhagen, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is still scheduled to fly to the Moon later this year on a commercial lander built by the aerospace firm Intuitive Machines in Houston, Texas, as part of the CLPS programme.
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