  NASA and ESA are preparing a series of human exploration missions using the
four-person Orion crew vehicle, launched by NASA's Space Launch System, and a
Lunar Orbiting Platform-Gateway (LOP-G) that enable long duration (>30 days)
operations in cis-lunar space. This will provide an opportunity for science and
exploration from the lunar surface facilitated by low latency surface
telerobotics. We describe two precursor experiments, using the International
Space Station (ISS) and a student-built teleoperated rover, which are laying
the groundwork for remote operation of rovers on the Moon by astronauts aboard
the LOP-G. Such missions will open the lunar far side, among other sites, for
exploration and science. We describe examples of two high-priority, lunar
science missions that can be conducted using low latency surface telerobotics
including an astronaut-assisted far side sample return and the
deployment/construction of a low frequency radio telescope array to observe the
first stars and galaxies (Cosmic Dawn). The lessons learned from these lunar
operations will feed-forward to future low latency telepresence missions on
Mars.
