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Digital Press Kit – VIPER Egress Testing at NASA’s Ames Research Center

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Rachel Hoover

Jun 27, 2023
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A large room with a model of a rover towards the center and four people examining it to the left.
Members of NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission team conducting a test of the rover’s “egress,” or drive off the Astrobotic Griffin lunar lander and onto the Moon’s surface. Testing took place at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
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NASA invites the media to view full-scale testing of a prototype of the agency’s first robotics Moon rover, VIPER – short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) – as it practices driving off the structural test model of Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander at 3 a.m. PDT on Wednesday, June 28, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.

NASA news products:

Media advisory: NASA Ames Invites Media for Moon Rover Testing with Lunar Lander (June 22, 2023)

NASA web feature: NASA Moon Rover Practices Tricky Drive Off Lunar Lander (May 31, 2022)

NASA web feature: VIPER Practices All-Wheel Drive to the Moon (Nov. 30, 2021)

General image and video resources:

NASA’s image and video library

Ames Imaging Library System

NASA’s media usage guidelines

Social media:

Twitter: @NASAAmes and @NASAArtemis

Facebook: NASA’s Ames Research Center

Related links:

VIPER mission webpage

Artemis missions webpage

Media contact:

Newsroom at NASA’s Ames Research Center, 650-604-4789, arc-dl-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.

A copy of NASA’s media accreditation policy is available online at https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-agencywide-media-accreditation-policy