Space agency officials announced on Wednesday that they have hired three companies to come up with preliminary designs for vehicles to take NASA astronauts around the lunar south polar region in the coming years. After the astronauts return to Earth, these vehicles would be able to self-drive around as robotic explorers, similar to NASA's rovers on Mars.
The self-driving capability would also allow the vehicle to meet the next astronaut mission at a different location.
"Where it will go, there are no roads," Jacob Bleacher, the chief exploration scientist at NASA, said at a news conference on Wednesday. "Its mobility will fundamentally change our view of the moon."
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