This is

This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

Behind the Black Bob Zimmerman is here to pick three lunar rover companies for the ambition of returning to the surface of the moon.

NASA.

Bob, a very good evening to you.

This looks like a positive story, is it?

Good evening to you.

Yes, this is a very positive story.

This is a case where NASA is hiring three different commercial companies who are also partnered with other companies

to build, to do initial feasibility design work on each company's proposed

lunar man man to lunar rover.

This is not a little rover that would come down on a manned

lander. These are the rovers they want to give. come down on a unmanned land.

These are the rovers they want to give the astronauts fly to the moon

and give to the astronauts to get around.

And so they've given, they've issued contracts to three different

consortiums. The first one is led by a company called Astrolab.

That was its Flex Rover and their partner with Axiom and Odyssey Space.

Intuitive machines who did the Lunar Lander just a few months ago,

is building what it calls its

an racer rover in conjunction with Boeing, Michelin,

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