NASA Provides More Details to Congress about VIPER Decision

NASA Provides More Details to Congress about VIPER Decision

NASA has provided more details of its decision to cancel the VIPER robotic lunar rover mission in response to a letter from a key House committee.  It doesn’t specifically answer how it now will obtain the data VIPER was to glean, but offers some insight into the agency’s surprise decision to terminate a spacecraft that was already built and partially through pre-launch tests, yet continue the $323 million services contract to land it on the Moo…