NASA displays a manned lunar rover for two astronauts to live and work

CTOnews.com, Oct. 26 (Xinhua)-- NASA announced a lunar rover for ground experiments on Monday. The car is about 3 meters high, about 5 meters long, has a maximum speed of 10 kilometers per hour, and has the ability to climb over rock obstacles. In addition, the car is also equipped with beds and toilets for the two astronauts.

Several US media reports say NASA has been testing the new lunar rover in a rock lava area north of Flagstaff, Arizona.

It can rotate in place, climb a foot of rock, or even drive sideways, all of which astronauts need to master when exploring the moon. They chose the area near SP crater near Flagstaff because it is the closest place on earth to the moon. At least when it comes to destroying the landscape of spacecraft.

The rover will be part of Artemis's manned mission to the moon, but the manned flight program will begin as early as 2025 and will send humans to the moon again since the 1970s.

Omar Beckdash, an NASA engineer involved in the project, said: "all the wheels are independently controlled and they are also equipped with active suspension so that they can rise and fall when needed."

This lunar rover is actually an experimental device. It has gone through generations of improvements because its designers know what they need to do and what they don't need in space. This time, for example, NASA is testing a driving system with windows and cameras in as real an environment as possible.

"people spent two nights in the rover, spent three days crossing lava flows, conducted actual conversations with mission control in Houston, and simulated a real mission to the moon," Beckdash said. "

CTOnews.com learned that engineers are also working on other topics, such as how 4G mobile phone technology works on the moon. Michael Zamba, a communications engineer at NASA, said: "if you can't send back cool pictures, cool data and scientific information, what's the point of going to the moon?"