Tag: LUNARROVER

Today marks the 40th-anniversary of the original manned lunar landing, and NASA hopes to have more astronauts touch down on the moon's surface by 2020. According to FOXNews, the next moon visitors will be traveling in style once they get there with new, high-tech, pimped-out moon wheels. The original lunar rover first toured the moon in 1971, but that outdated crawler pales when compared with ...

If you've been wondering what your tax dollars are being spent on over at NASA just take a quick look at this video. The new lunar rover, dubbed Chariot because astronauts ride it while standing on the back, is getting put through its paces at the Lunar Yard at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The six-wheeled Chariot tops out at 20-miles-per-hour and can accept a range of ...