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Lockheed Martin unites with GM to design new all-terrain electric moon buggy – SYFY WIRE
Back in the ’70s there was nothing cooler than watching Apollo astronauts zip around the lunar surface in slow-motion on TV while buckled up inside a four-wheeled…
Back in the ’70s there was nothing cooler than watching Apollo astronauts zip around the lunar surface in slow-motion on TV while buckled up inside a four-wheeled moon buggy. That old Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was a battery-powered, open cockpit dune-crawler used during Apollo 15, 16, and 17 in 1971 and 1972 before being left behind as the NASA program ended.
Now a new generation of electric lunar ATV is on the drawing board in a team-up of engineers at Lockheed Martin and General Motors to produce…
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