Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) is a new lunar rover being developed by NASA for the exploration of the moon in quest of water ice.
This article updates and supplements “Astronomical imperialism!” (workers.org/2019/10/43849) and “As Amazon workers struggle for a union, Bezos sends exploitation to outer space” (www.workers.org/2021/04/55868) There is much hullabaloo about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Artemis III project, which boasts with great fanfare that it will land the first woman…