NASA Lunar Electric Rover - riding inside the vehicle

This video was taken from inside the NASA Lunar Electric Rover. While working at NASA during the summer of 2009, I wandered over to the Johnson Space Center rock yard. Engineers were testing the vehicle and offered me a ride. It was an opportunity to pick an engineer's brain for a few minutes and get a neat ride. I will use some of the vehicle electronics concepts for a UNC Charlotte and NASA-sponsored senior design (capstone) project (visit my research webpage at http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~jmconrad).

The driver rode through several of the rock yard terrain, including mini-craters and up a small hill. He demonstrated the ability of the vehicle to move forward and sideways.

This was truly a ride of a lifetime!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• NASA
• Lunar
• Electric
• Rover
• inside
• vehicle
• Chariot
• ATHLETE

[quantumG]

hehe, no. I mean, I have trouble believing that they'll ever take it to the Moon.

[emishore]

it doesn't need to fly. think of it as a car for the moon

[quantumG]

That's a great vehicle. I have trouble believing it will ever fly though.

[engrforever]

What next? We need to send Dr. Conrad to the moon :)

[JesseBikman]

Oh man, and I thought my Jeep was cool!