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Whatever the future holds, it’s an exciting time for lunar exploration and those on the Carnegie Mellon team. From a personal perspective, says Prof Whittaker, “I’ve had such a good run of it, [building] robots for land, the sea, in the air, underwater and underground. Now my frontier is the high frontier”.