This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

Hotel Mars episode and we're going to the moon.

We're going to the moon again and again and again

a program that NASA now shepherds all of these moonlanders,

called Clips.

What is Clips?

That's why Jeff Faust, senior staff writer

for Space News is here to help us understand

the NASA program Commercial Lunar Payload Service,

clips, and the first several missions that were successful and are under review

for the next mission.

Jeff, a very good evening to you.

Clips, what is the mission that NASA puts in front

of all these commercial enterprises?

Good evening to you.

Good evening. You know,iffs that Commercial Lunar Payload Services

program is an effort by NASA to help foster the development of commercial

lunar landers that can carry payloads, scientific experiments, technology

demonstrations, things like that to the surface of the moon. And so what NASA does

is that they buy lander services from companies rather than buy the lander themselves

they will buy payload space on these landers they'll provide the payloads the

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