Presuming that our government hasn’t yet established a DMV office on the moon, we guess that it’s okay for NASA to proceed with plans that will further encourage astronauts to once again drive on and around the lunar surface without a moon license.
“Where it will go, there are no roads,” Jacob Bleacher, the chief exploration scientist at NASA, said at a news conference on Wednesday. “Its mobility will fundamentally change our view of the moon.” Among the required specifications for the “vehicles” is that they be autonomous, because when the humans are finished with the trek, the L.T.V.s will remain on the planet to do “robotic” exploring.
The companies asked to offer plans are Intuitive Machines of Houston, which in February successfully landed a robotic spacecraft on the moon; Lunar Outpost of Golden, Colo.; and Venturi Astrolab of Hawthorne, Calif. Only one of the three will actually build vehicles for NASA and send them up.
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