Reply from Daniel Cressey

Daniel Cressey — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:00:17 -0000

That thing is huge. Surely a more compact design will be needed for whatever is being flown up to the Moon?

It does look very cool, but the NASA press release for the Chariot is a bit downbeat about the prospect of it actually getting anywhere:
“Some, all or none of these features may be selected for the design of a rover that eventually goes to the moon.”

It also notes that “NASA’s lunar architects currently envision pressurized rovers that would travel in pairs, with two astronauts in each rover.”

If you added a pressurized cab to this model of chariot and then shipped two them to the Moon you’d be looking at a big load.

Nature blog from last year on moon rover:
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2007/09/pimp_my_moon_buggy.html

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