NASA’s VIPER rover, once threatened by a canceled mission, has secured a fresh opportunity to explore the Moon. Blue Origin, the aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos, has been selected to transport ...

At issue is the agency’s “Lunar Terrain Vehicle” (LTV) contract. In April 2024, the space agency awarded a few tens of millions of dollars to three companies—Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and ...

Before me is an expansive, arid landscape—a realm of valleys, chasms, and crevasses, of steep cliffs and dusty soil, framed by distant mountains. It might as well be on the moon itself, save for the ...

Founded in 2017 in Golden, Colorado, Lunar Outpost has rapidly evolved from a commercial lunar mobility startup to a key player in NASA’s Artemis program. On December 4, 2025, the company announced ...

The Artemis program is still in its infancy, with only one mission having taken off so far, with no humans on board. The first crewed mission, Artemis II, is expected to lift off next year and carry a ...