ASTROBOTIC AWARDED $199.5 MILLION CONTRACT TO DELIVER NASA MOON ROVER
JUNE 11, 2020
Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander to carry the NASA VIPER mission to the south pole of the Moon in 2023, as a precursor to a human landing
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Came across this while researching something totally different. This project was first proposed by Dr. Frank Malina (one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory) in late 1960 as an ideal candidate for the first activity of the just formed Academy of Astronautics (now known as the...
NASAs pre-Apollo program underwent a number of changes as the need to reach the moon before the Russians came to dominate the program.
One concept, that was studied and not proceeded with was mounting a small (100lb) rover to a modified Surveyor. It was to be fitted with small scientific...
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Over the years NASA has run various systems engineering courses with universities around the United States. In the mid-1970 a group associated with Rice University was asked to design a Dual-Mode rover for use in the 1980's.
The selected design was for a two man, tracked rover.
Manned/Unmanned...
During the 1960's one proposal for the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was make it so that after the manned mission was over it could be used as an unmanned rover for further exploration. Here is the final presentation report for the Bendix Version...
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An article on pre-Shenzhou studies and the Shenzhou project. Check it out:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/launchpad/1921/story-7.htm
You gotta love this illustration. Here you go.
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