Mission manager Marc Reagan explains NASA’s obsession with joysticks and what it’s really like to camp inside a prototype moon rover for two days in the desert.

The last time anyone drove on the Moon was way back in 1972 when the astronauts of Apollo 17 took the Lunar Roving Vehicle for one last spin. Now, NASA is plotting a return to the Moon’s surface ...

It’s like a confusing game of musical chairs for spacecraft. Originally, the plan was straightforward: NASA wanted to send a rover to look for frozen water near the moon’s south pole.It hired ...

NASA has already spent $450 million developing its VIPER mission, and the agency declared that it wouldn’t spend any more money on getting the rover to land on the lunar surface.

NASA announced it is canceling its Viper moon rover project due to high cost and launch delays. The Viper rover was meant to explore the moon's south pole in search of water.

NASA engineers at Johnson Space Center are designing a new lunar rover prototype called the Ground Test Unit. The space agency said Wednesday it plans to have the vehicle available for the Artemis ...

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NASA’s nearly complete yet canceled lunar rover VIPER isn’t going to get carried to the moon by a private space exploration company—but it’s also not quite dead yet ...

NASA will spend about $800 million to not send a robotic rover to the moon. The rover, known as the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is already built.

The rover, roughly the size of a Fiat 500, has already been built. It is undergoing final testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston ahead of a planned launch next year on a SpaceX Falcon ...

WASHINGTON — NASA is moving ahead with plans to partner with a company to deliver a rover to the surface of the moon after the agency canceled the mission last year. NASA released Feb. 3 an ...

NASA has spent $450 million designing and building a first-of-its-kind robot to drive into eternally dark craters at the Moon's south pole, but the agency announced Wednesday it will cancel the ...