User:Buster7/Sandbox-Lunar Chariot
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[edit]- Lunar chariot
- Its not your Fathers Moon Rover
- NASA...a long line of Lunar vehicles.
- 1st prototype...2007...of course still limited to earth-bound testing.
- a two-ton truck, top earth speed=20 kilometers per hour
- testing is at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas
- construction completed in 2007
- detachable plow.
- independent steering at each of its 6 pairs of wheels (if anything goes wrong there is independency of wheels, one from the others)
- 6 wheels also allow for immediate turn response and maneuverability.
- all wheel drive, all wheel steering
- designed and built in 11 months at a cost of around 3.5 million
- www.newscientist.com
- scheduled for moon mission in 2020
- Rover (space exploration)
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