Lt. Gen. Schiess Nominated to Lead Space Force

As NASA and its partners push harder toward a sustained human presence on the Moon, mobility is mission-critical. Moon buggies with lawn chairs might’ve been good enough for the Apollo-era, but long-term surface operations depend on lunar rovers that can pull their weight (quite literally).For decades, lunar rovers were the domain of national space agencies, and built to support short-duration science missions. Those days are long gone. Today, rovers—backed by private capital—are being designed to do more than poke and prod. They’re being tasked with transporting cargo, scouting resources, supporting astronauts, and generating commercial data for customers beyond NASA.Ignition remix: At NASA’s Ignition event in March, Administrator Jared Isaacman announced changes to the agency’s lunar rover program. Because Isaacman had already laid out a new plan for a lunar base, regular crewed missions to the surface, and monthly robotic lunar landings, all of that would require a new approach to lunar rovers—one that focuses on delivering rovers to the lunar surface faster and at scale. Keep reading