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Justin Cyrus had exactly 25 minutes to decide. It was a Friday morning in late March, and Cyrus, the 32-year-old founder and CEO of Lunar Outpost, had just watched NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman appear on a livestream from the agency's Ignition event at Kennedy Space Center and announce, with no advance warning to the commercial contractors whose fortunes depend on the Artemis program, that NASA was abandoning its Lunar Terrain Vehicle acquisition strategy. The three companies competing to build the moon's first crewed rover — Lunar Outpost, Astrolab, and Intuitive Machines — would not, as they had expected, be awarded a contract that day. Instead, Isaacman told them to go back to their factories and design something simpler, faster, and cheaper. The new deadline for a flight-ready rover: the end of 2027. The new mandate: get it done now.