{"id":240166,"date":"2026-07-02T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/a-fully-built"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:06:18","slug":"a-fully-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/a-fully-built","title":{"rendered":"A fully built"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-fully-built.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA announced on June 30, 2026, that it is considering sending PROMISE, an engineering test rover built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a stand-in for the Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, to the lunar surface. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, announcing the concept alongside a batch of new lunar lander contracts, framed the pitch as a matter of hardware already paid for. \u201cWe\u2019ve had years now of experience operating the two rovers on the surface of Mars, and we\u2019ve got this hardware that the taxpayers have invested a lot in,\u201d Isaacman said, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a>. \u201cSo the question was posed: what if we send it to the moon?\u201d He introduced the idea with a line borrowed from Yoda: \u201cThere is another.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA announced on June 30, 2026, that it is considering sending PROMISE, an engineering test rover built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a stand-in for the Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, to the lunar surface. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, announcing the concept alongside a batch of new lunar lander contracts, framed the pitch as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240166","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=240166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}