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"Welcome to the NASA Lunar Electric Rover (LER) Simulator. You don't need a driver's license, but you still need to buckle up as the LER Simulator gives you a glimpse of what it might be like to support the activities of a functioning Lunar Outpost. Get busy. You never know if your skills here will become a major part of the NASA Astronaut application process in the future."
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The Lunar Electric Rover (LER) can buy its way to the Moon.
Earth to LEO on a Jupiter 130 or an EELV.
LEO to low lunar orbit or Lagrange point on the solar electric VASIMR tug Ad Astra is talking to NASA about.
Now for the difficult part finding a large cargo lander - many designs but currently none are being funded.
The astronauts will have to go and return via a separate path. There are at least 3 Earth to LEO capsules under development. They will need a lander and ascent stage.
I assume that the LER can be used as a mobile lunar outpost for a few days.
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The LER is a rover with no place to go. At 33 Mil a pop (4 now) what's the point? I guess they can truck around the MARS hill at JSC and all the folks that get laid off can sit on the side of the road and watch through the fence as they blow more money on robots and rovers with no destination. I don't get it?