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Re:Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SL... by Animats on Sunday February 09, 2025 @01:01AM (#42988809)
How about a robotic moon program? An all-robot base, with lots of rovers exploring and digging. They could work for years, rather than short visits by humans.

The moon is close enough that you can teleoperate robots, although the 2.5 second lag means you have to have autonomy for at least balance. That's where Tesla's robots are now.

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Re:Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SL... by defrost on Sunday February 09, 2025 @01:25AM (#42988901)
As you're very likely already aware;

  Tank on the Moon (2007) is a French documentary film about the development, launch, and operation of the Soviet Moon exploration rovers, Lunokhod 1 and Lunokhod 2 in the period from 1970 to 1973.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_on_the_Moon

on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_0K2-Tf3Ko

A bit of sometimes overlooked history.

It's about time for a larger scale robot base .. good trial run for elsewhere at even greater distances.

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