About five years later, NASA researchers began developing a rover that could find and capture this water. Their budget is $250 million, making it a small-scale project, Bluethmann said. It is those areas where the rover will drill for water in four-inch chunks, Bluethmann said, going down as far as a metre. Johnson’s moon rover could gain traction under the Trump administration, which has expressed a renewed interest in human lunar exploration. Though Andrews, the lunar rover project manager, did not directly comment on the Trump administration’s renewed interest in the moon, he said NASA’s focus on both lunar and deep-space missions will be helpful to their mission.

Source: thestar December 19, 2017 00:45 UTC