New NASA Lunar Rover looks ready for Armageddon
Click above for high-res image gallery of the NASA Lunar Rover concept
NASA paraded its Small Pressurized Rover Concept down the streets of the presidential inauguration last week, and it looks like they're fans of Michael Bay. The lunar rover, which is a rear canopy and a couple of struts away from being the Armadillo drilling unit from the movie Armageddon, is about the size of a pickup truck, and has twelve wheels.
NASA has its eyes on the moon in 2020, and this is the vehicle that will host a succession of astronauts, in pairs, as they explore the lunar
Gallery: Small Lunar Rover Concept
[Source: Engadget]
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firstplace 4:25PM (1/26/2009)
how much money was spent to make that thing? Didn't we already reach the moon?
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firstplace 4:40PM (1/26/2009)
Oh and someone needs to tell them big as_ SUV with little rims is ghetto.
rodan32 4:59PM (1/26/2009)
Who are you, the money police? Besides, going back to the moon is one tiny sliver of the pie we're laying out for moron banks that couldn't manage their assets, and a lot more useful (in my opinion). Science, technology, not to mention the explorer's spirit. And you want to count dimes.
RyanK 5:51PM (1/26/2009)
How much it cost is a non-issue. NASA's 2009 budget request totaled about $17.6 billion. You could fund NASA for the next 40 years at that rate with just what was handed out to the banks.
People need to stop complaining about what NASA's projects costs. It's a mere sliver of what is spent in other sectors and you could argue much of what they've done and could do gains us far more than spending $130 million on a single fighter jet that just blows stuff up.
thomas 6:31PM (1/26/2009)
yeah! a sliver!
BoxerFanatic 11:12PM (1/26/2009)
Money does NOT GROW ON TREES... Didn't any of your parents teach you that?
Just because this is not as expensive as other insanity, doesn't mean it is viable.
And if they want to spend trillions of dollars, on everything from nationalizing banks and automakers, to pulling a new moonshot out of their rears.
If you want to go back to the moon... or to mars, or whatever, fine. Cut something else, government. If you want to deficit spend over the budget, and THEN cry for bail outs and false-stimulus packages to disguise socialism, then there won't be enough left to send bubkus to the moon.
Most socialist countries can't afford to have their own major space program, btw. Even the communists in the former Soviet Union spent themselves into bankruptcy and collapse trying to run that race, even with their jackrabbit head start.
Just because there are HUGE ABHORRENT abuses, doesn't mean that smaller irresponsibility is off the hook. That kind of thinking will bankrupt and destroy this country VERY quickly.
dukeisduke 4:29PM (1/26/2009)
Did the contractor throw in a free set of floormats?
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skant 4:30PM (1/26/2009)
I call shotgun
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thomas 4:31PM (1/26/2009)
oh wow.
does this mean theres an asteroid hurling towards earth??
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Jorge 5:40PM (1/26/2009)
If we support our supositions in the fact that Morgan Freeman was President in Deep Impact, maybe....
MAAD 6:36PM (1/26/2009)
F the Bible, and the Mayan calendar.. Armageddon holds the truth.. but only if Aerosmith is still around.
Mazda FTW! 4:32PM (1/26/2009)
Strictly badass. I am already excited about the Constellation Program.
And then onto Mars itself :)
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Rick 7:31PM (1/26/2009)
The Constellation program is step backward in my opinion. They should have concentrated on a second generation shuttle, instead of rehashing an old Apollo design.
juschilln02 4:41PM (1/26/2009)
they should've just painted Tumbler white :-)
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TurboPanzer 6:07PM (1/26/2009)
I like your thinking.
Jake 5:56PM (1/26/2009)
And its still using a push-rod engine and a solid rear axel. When will they learn???
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Samurai Jack 5:59PM (1/26/2009)
One can only hope they'll be unofficially calling this thing "The Chariot".
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TurboPanzer 6:06PM (1/26/2009)
Now all we need is Bruce Willis.
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thomas 6:34PM (1/26/2009)
"The Chariot"..... and not "Armadillo"?????
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Samurai Jack 8:48PM (1/26/2009)
Yes, the Chariot. As in "Danger Will Robinson, Danger!" I swear, you young whippersnappers depress me sometimes...