US students beat NASA to land first robotic rover on moon.

A group of students, faculty, and alumni from Carnegie Mellon University have developed the Iris rover, which is set to become America's first robotic moon rover. The 4.4-pound rover will be carried to the moon as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program and will primarily take images of the moon's surface for geographic study. The launch is scheduled for May 4, 2021, and will also carry an art installation called the MoonArk, a tiny time capsule filled with poems, music, pictures, and small objects.