{"id":779183,"date":"2024-03-19T13:56:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=779183"},"modified":"2024-03-19T13:56:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:56:54","slug":"nasa-to-select-lunar-terrain-vehicle-for-artemis-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=779183","title":{"rendered":"NASA to Select Lunar Terrain Vehicle for Artemis Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NASA will host a news conference to announce the company, or companies, selected to move forward in developing the LTV (Lunar Terrain Vehicle), which will help Artemis astronauts explore more of the Moon\u2019s surface on future missions. The televised event will take place at 4 p.m. EDT (3 p.m. CDT), Wednesday, April 3, at the agency\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The news conference will air live on\u00a0NASA+, NASA Television, the\u00a0NASA app, and the\u00a0agency\u2019s\u00a0website. Learn how to\u00a0stream NASA TV\u00a0through a variety of platforms including social media.<\/p>\n<p>Event participants will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vanessa Wyche, director, NASA Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Jacob Bleacher, chief exploration scientist, NASA Headquarters<\/li>\n<li>Lara Kearney, manager, Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Program, NASA Johnson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>International media interested in participating in person must request credentials by 6 p.m. Thursday, March 21. U.S. media interested in attending in person must request credentials by 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 27. All media interested in participating by phone must request details by 2 p.m., April 3. To participate, contact the NASA Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111 or\u00a0jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov. NASA\u2019s media accreditation policy\u00a0is online.<\/p>\n<p>Through Artemis, NASA will land the first woman, first person of color, and its first international partner astronaut on the surface of the Moon to explore for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build the foundation for crewed missions to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about NASA\u2019s Artemis campaign at:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">-end-<\/p>\n<p>Kathryn Hambleton<br \/>Headquarters, Washington<br \/>202-358-1100<br \/>kathryn.a.hambleton@nasa.gov<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Ugalde \/ Nilufar Ramji<br \/>Johnson Space Center, Houston<br \/>281-483-5111<br \/>victoria.d.ugalde@nasa.gov \/ nilufar.ramji@nasa.gov<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-to-select-lunar-terrain-vehicle-for-artemis-missions\/?rand=772114\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA will host a news conference to announce the company, or companies, selected to move forward in developing the LTV (Lunar Terrain Vehicle), which will help Artemis astronauts explore more&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":779184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/779184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}