PointOrView's video: NASA to send VIPER rover in a race to lunar South Pole that India started

The Moon Race is ON! After ISRO, NASA is preparing to launch a lunar rover named VIPER to explore the Moon's south pole. now NASA's new moon rover VIPER is getting ready for its big day, hot on the heels of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission, which successfully landed a lander and rover on the lunar south pole. Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is an ice-hunting moon rover, expected to launch no sooner than 2024 atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for the lunar south pole. To prepare for its first crawl down its lander's ramp, engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston sent the prototype rover down a ramp in an indoor facility. The ramp was tilted at several angles to simulate different exit strategies the rover might need to take from a lander built by private company Astrobotic when it goes on the surface for real near Nobile Crater. NASA caught the preparations on video, showing a prototype rover slowly inching away from its lander to the surface. Don't miss out on this exciting new chapter in space exploration! MoonRover