The electric lunar vehicle prototype will drive down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington as part of President Obama's inauguration on Tuesday, January 20
The electric lunar vehicle prototype will drive down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington as part of President Obama's inauguration on Tuesday, January 20. This while NASA director Michael Griffin He resigned from his position at the end of the week Due to disagreements regarding the plan to return to the moon.
The vehicle is part of a prototype series of vehicles that NASA is testing for use by the astronauts when they return to the moon in 2020. As you may recall, during the past year NASA tried Several models of the lunar rover in the Arizona deserts.
The vehicle is the size of a commercial van, and it will be able to carry two astronauts for 14 days, and for that it includes sleeping and sanitary facilities. Among the vehicle's unique features is the ability to move in a crab motion, which will allow it to drive the six pairs of wheels in any combination forward and sideways to overcome difficult terrain. As a bonus, the vehicle will help NASA develop new technologies that will also be applicable to electric vehicles on Earth.
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The question arises, how much of NASA's money is really invested in serious things, and how much is invested only in public relations?
Not to mention all the spaceships that explode due to serious inattention.
NASA always exaggerates the dates,
But if it really launches in 2020, it will be when I'm 24 or 25,
Xiao I want to be an astronaut now.
2020 ?????
Yallallah a long time