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NASA Picks 3 Companies to Help Astronauts Drive Around the Moon
jeudi 4 avril 2024, 09:00 , par Slashdot
The plan is for the L.T.V. to be on the lunar surface ahead of Artemis V, the third astronaut landing that is expected in 2030, said Lara Kearney, manager of the extravehicular activity and human surface mobility program at the NASA Johnson Space Center. 'If they can get there earlier, we'll take it earlier,' Ms. Kearney said. The L.T.V. contract will be worth up to $4.6 billion over the next 15 years -- five years of development and then a decade of operations on the moon, most of it going to the winner of this competition. But Ms. Kearney said the contracts allow NASA to later finance the development of additional rovers, or allow other companies to compete in the future. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/04/0212212/nasa-picks-3-companies-to-help-astronauts-drive-...
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