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NASA's VIPER – short for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover – sits assembled inside the cleanroom at the agency's Johnson Space Center.moon's south poleThe decision to axe the VIPER mission was announced today in a teleconference; cancelling the program is expected to save the agency an additional $84 million in development costs. NASA has spent about $450 million on the program so far, not including launch costs.
"First and most important, this is in no way a reflection on the quality of the work from the mission team that are working to build this rover," said Nicola Fox, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate."They have worked diligently, including through the pandemic, to be able to build this rover to look for water on the moon.
NASA is now looking to"potentially de-integrate and reuse VIPER scientific instruments and components for future moon missions" Kearns said today, but will first ask both U.S. and international industry partners for any interest in using the rover as-is.Despite the VIPER program's end, NASA is confident that its same science objectives can be accomplished through future lunar exploration initiatives.
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