NASA Statement on Resource Prospector and RESOLVE Costs “NASA’s early prototype work on the Regolith and Environmental Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatiles Extraction or RESOLVE project, which was an integrated set of general prospecting payloads, provided the basis for the initial instruments for the Resource Prospector (RP) mission concept. The agency invested an estimated $22 million in RESOLVE’s early technology development/prototyping efforts. Since the RP team was formed in […]

We’re committed to lunar exploration @NASA. Resource Prospector instruments will go forward in an expanded lunar surface campaign. More landers. More science. More exploration. More prospectors. More commercial partners. Ad astra! https://t.co/FaxO6WUDow — Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) April 27, 2018 A series of questions was sent to NASA HEOMD, SMD, and PAO. No response back. Is this tweet the official @NASA response on Resource Prospector cancellation? Is it actually cancelled or […]