NASA Team Demonstrates Robot Technology for Moon Exploration

U.S. Newswire, February, 2008

To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS

Contact: Stephanie Schierholz, Headquarters, Washington, 1-202- 358-4997, 1-202-358-1272, stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov, Katherine K. Martin, Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, 1-216-433-2406, katherine.martin@grc.nasa.gov, or Brandi Dean, Johnson Space Center, Houston, 1-281-244-1403, brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov, all of NASA

CLEVELAND, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During the 3rd Space Exploration Conference Feb. 26-28 in Denver, NASA will exhibit a robot rover equipped with a drill designed to find water and oxygen-rich soil on the moon.

"Resources are the key to sustainable outposts on the moon and Mars," said Bill Larson, deputy manager of the In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) project. "It's too expensive to bring everything from...

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