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Showing posts with label lunar rovers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lunar rovers. Show all posts

Monday, 19 December 2011

Whoa, have you seen the awesome stuff Swissstache.tumblr.com finds?

Swissstache found this on http://driven.urbandaddy.com/2011/12/13/long-live-the-king/ I've never seen Steve with this Vette before
wow.
 Ain't that effing incredible

The Apollo 15 astronauts, their Lunar Rover, and some of the Corvettes they'd been given.  Via http://blog.caranddriver.com/spaceflight-de-mayo-50-years-of-astronauts-and-corvettes/


another to end the days surfing: Liam Garrity's photo at the 2011 Famoso season http://www.bangshift.com/gallery/Liam-Garritty-photos-from-Famoso-s-2011-Season-gallery.html


 The above is the Land Speed Racing record holder of 1970, the Blue Flame, which was running on hydrogen peroxide and liquid natural gas. It's on permanent display at the Sinsheim Technik Museum in Germany. It was contructed in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and that record stood for 13 years

http://swissstash.tumblr.com/ for more great photos

This may be the coolest photo post I've done all year

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Monday, 5 September 2011

prototype lunar rover... the MTA


This is Frenc Pavlics (the mobility genius) driving the MTA over our “Lunarium” rock field outside of the engineering building. It is controlled with a joystick controller on the right side. The GM Research Labs at the Tech Center donated the same type controller used on the Firebird III. found on http://deansgarage.com/2011/moonmen/#more-4737 

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Thursday, 3 June 2010

The lunar rover going for a spin, and NASA tour busses

From http://americanshaft.tumblr.com/ via: http://melisaki.tumblr.com/ for better photos of the lunar rover http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/lunar-rover-only-wheeled-vehicle-off.html

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Sunday, 27 December 2009

The lunar rover, only wheeled vehicle off the planet

Above image via: http://www.greyhandgang.com/

there were actually 3 deployed: http://luminosis.blogspot.com/2009/07/for-sale-one-lunar-rover.html
Above image via: http://www.solarviews.com/raw/apo/as17-147-22526.jpg


Below inage via: http://apolloanomalies.com/images/ALSJ/AS17-137-20979HR.jpg

They are still working on the next generaton of lunar rover tires: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/06/goodyear-and-nasa-develop-the-next-gen-lunar-rover-tire-its-springy/


I don't consider the toys on mars to be vehicles, since they have no ability to transport people

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