{"id":228126,"date":"2025-12-31T09:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/nasa-announcement-for-new-lunar-vehicle-expected-in-coming-weeks-colorado-company-1-of-3-in-consideration"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:03:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:03:59","slug":"nasa-announcement-for-new-lunar-vehicle-expected-in-coming-weeks-colorado-company-1-of-3-in-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/nasa-announcement-for-new-lunar-vehicle-expected-in-coming-weeks-colorado-company-1-of-3-in-consideration","title":{"rendered":"NASA announcement for new lunar vehicle expected \u2018in coming weeks,\u2019 Colorado company 1 of 3 in consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-announcement-for-new-lunar-vehicle-expected-in-coming-weeks-colorado-company-1-of-3-in-consideration.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, DC (KOAA) \u2014 As NASA looks to return to the moon\u2019s surface in the near future, Colorado company Lunar Outpost is one of three companies currently competing for a multi-billion dollar contract from the space agency for a new Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV).<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, NASA indicated to KOAA the long-awaited decision could finally be made in the coming weeks of early 2026. <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-selects-companies-to-advance-moon-mobility-for-artemis-missions\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s contract<\/a> could have a combined maximum potential value of $4.6 billion for all awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC (KOAA) \u2014 As NASA looks to return to the moon\u2019s surface in the near future, Colorado company Lunar Outpost is one of three companies currently competing for a multi-billion dollar contract from the space agency for a new Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV). On Monday, NASA indicated to KOAA the long-awaited decision could finally [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}