Rover and Spacesuit Testing
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It would be funny if NASA posted this video just to garner information from all the "experts" on Youtube.
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Stanly Kubrik, Walt Disney and Wernher Von Braun( former Nazi Rocket Scientist who directed Nasa after his capture after WW2) worked together to make the apollo landings look real.
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I am starting to think the guys back in the 70's where doing this job better. Forty years pass and you got MALL COP lunar rovers come on NASA. Two space ships to get guys to the moon? How is it 1970's could do it with just one? Very poor.
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as the old rover is like a jeep where when you take off the suit, you decrompess and die. And for the reason to further do research and make a base for the launch to mars.
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We havent gone to the moon for the reason that there isnt research there needed until we are sure that we can live in space for 6 month periods. The NEW lunar rover is able to last a crew of two for 14 days when they are on the field researching. Also, the old lunar rover is outdated and hard to use. The new one has compressed air inside which allows the driver to walk around inside without the suit on, kinda of like an RV.
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why the hell are they making a lunar rover...We haven't been to the Moon siice 1972, lets get their again first, then we should get this lunar rover project working.
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way to go NASA! we here on Earth, have "discovered" in the last 100 years that for rough terrain (soft also) tracks are better than wheels... nevertheless, you still develop a wheeled lunar rover, with loooots of wheels to distribute the load as to prevent the rover from getting stuck in the dust... (why not complicate the design, if it's too simple?) --- Constellation Program? HUGE Disappointment...
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"ordinary pneumatic tyres would simply blow up"
That is if you inflate them at several atm. pressure. But the tyres would not blow up if you keep the pressure difference in vacuum, as the pressure difference between tyre and surrounding air on earth.
Has to suck to be walking around in what appears to be real spacesuits in 1g.
I thought this new rover was kinda lame at first until I saw it work in an unmanned configuration,act as a bulldozer,and also a pressurized version.
It's actually far better then the first moon rovers I wish I can say the same about the crew vehicle Orion which seems to be turning out to be just a modernized Apollo.
Membrane556 3 years ago 3
It would be cheaper yes.
It would also be a death trap.
TheLovePizza 3 years ago 2