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Sending repurposed Mars rover to the moon could cost more than $1 billion

Sending repurposed Mars rover to the moon could cost more than $1 billion

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An estimate suggested that converting an engineering model of a Mars rover into a lunar rover could cost NASA more than $1 billion. NASA's administrator has rejected this cost estimate.

Converting an engineering model of a Mars rover into an actual lunar rover could cost NASA more than $1 billion, an estimate strongly rejected by the agency’s administrator. The post Sending repurposed Mars rover to the moon could cost more than $1 billion appeared first on SpaceNews.

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