NASA’s Bug On The Moon

For NASA’s next jaunt up into space, they now will have a new moon buggy to play with. Aerospace creators, Northrop Grumman announced mid-November that its private team is designing a brand-spanking new Lunar Terrain Vehicle for NASA’s Artemis program. The program is set to be much like SpaceX’s pipe-dream of getting humans up into space by the end of the decade, making the moon their destination instead of Mars. The LTV’s purpose is to allow these to-be moon hoppers a chance to enhance human and robotic exploration.

NASA’s main goal though (for a different decade) is to get to Mars.

Northrop Grumman are working alongside AVL, tiremaker Michelin, Lunar Outpost and Intuitive Machines to create this little car in response to NASA’s assertive call for a crewed, unpressurised vehicle for use at the moon’s south pole, which is thought to harbour an awful lot of surface ice. No word, as of yet, has been released on what the moon-buggy will look like, but from the concept pictures, it looks to be the size of a car with a few cool features including fans, storage units and high-tech energy batteries. Space travel will soon be so much slicker and cooler.