buggies

NASA taps 2 companies to develop buggies for its moon base program

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Hawthorne, California — It was 1971 when America’s love affair with the car went lunar. The Apollo Lunar Rover turned American moon-walkers into moon-drivers, allowing astronauts to explore more than 50 miles of lunar crust and craters. “The Apollo Lunar Rover was a phenomenal machine, but fundamentally it had a very different job to do than the … Read more

NASA’s moon base plans include landers, buggies and drones for 2028 mission

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NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II’s record-breaking lunar flyaround. The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four U.S. companies. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will provide a pair … Read more