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    Researchers make tires from chainmail filled with tiny metal bits     1294147860

    Apparently, driving on the moon – with or without local human assistance – isn't all that easy. We wouldn't know. Anyway, researchers from McGill University believe they have a new invention that might make traversing the lunar surface a bit more possible, using tires fashioned from a ...

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    New NASA Lunar Rover looks ready for Armageddon     1233004800

    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 ...

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    Original lunar rover tire helps with next gen development     1230937260

    Click above for image gallery of lunar rovers in action.
    About the time Ford was developing the first Mustang, General Motors' Defense Research Labs was working on something more other-worldly. Man was about to go to the moon, and they needed some transportation when they got there. GM was chosen ...

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    Off-world off-roading: NASA tests new lunar rover     1224962760

    Click above for a gallery of the Small Pressurized Rover
    This week in Arizona, NASA conducted tests of the new battery-powered Small Pressurized Rover (SPR) it hopes to use when the U.S. sends astronauts back to the moon by 2020. The SPR is a huge leap forward over the original open-air (or is it ...

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