Students at Carnegie Mellon University are sending America's first robotic lunar rover to the moon this May, beating NASA to the punch by about a year.
After 65 years of lunar exploration, the United States is finally going to put its first autonomous rover on the moon. But this mission won't be helmed by NASA engineers — instead, it is the brainchild of a dedicated group of college students.
The Iris rover was developed by students, faculty and alumni at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania over the span of three years. It is being carried toas part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, the agency's foray into partnering with the commercial space industry. Initially, it was scheduled to launch in late 2021 or early 2022, but setbacks in NASA's moon agenda delayed the launch to this spring.
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