NASA: Another significant contract from NASA has been awarded to Intuitive Machines, the company that made the successful landing of the Odysseus spacecraft on the moon, to construct a vehicle for the moon. NASA has chosen Intuitive Machines to work with Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab on creating the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) that the Artemis crew will use to traverse the lunar surface.
What did NASA say?
NASA took to X to congratulate the companies that were selected to build the lunar terrain vehicle, It said, “Congratulations to @Int_Machines, @LunarOutpostInc, and @Astrolab_Space for being selected to move forward in developing the #Artemis lunar terrain vehicle! This Moon rover will allow future astronauts to travel far on the lunar surface: https://go.nasa.gov/440SeM9.”
Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center said,” “We look forward to the development of the Artemis generation lunar exploration vehicle to help us advance what we learn on the Moon. This vehicle will greatly increase our astronauts’ ability to explore and conduct science on the lunar surface while also serving as a science platform between crewed missions.”
How will the LTV help astronauts?
NASA wants the buggies to be able to do a variety of tasks. Similar to the robotic rovers that NASA has dispatched to Mars, the cars are intended to be able to drive themselves when humans are not present, even though they are designed to be piloted by astronauts to swiftly cover great distances.
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