Malaysian team aims to put a rover on the Moon next year

Concept image of the rover which Independence-X will be sending to the moon. Photo: Bostami Ahmad

“Imagine going to the streets and saying ‘we’re sending a robot to the Moon’,” says Mohd Izmir Yamin, 34.

“They’ll say, ‘it’s crazy’. And they are right, it is crazy in the sense of, where’s your resources? Your financial capital? Your technological know-how? It’s a mind-boggling thing.”