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NASA built a Moon rover but can’t afford to get it to the launch pad
Enlarge / NASA completed assembling the VIPER rover last month at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. 14 NASA has spent $450 million designing and building a first-of-its-kind robot to drive into eternally dark craters at the Moon's south pole, …