Carlos Garc\u00eda-Gal\u00e1n, Nasa\u2019s Moon base programme executive, said: \u201cThe LTVs [lunar terrain vehicles] will give astronauts the ability to conduct scientific research around the Moon.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s going to do a lot more than that, because in this case, we need it to work all year round [when astronauts are not there].<\/p>\n
\u201cWe needed them to be on the surface doing things, to basically prospect at the surface, scope around to potential landing sites, or go to areas of deep scientific objectives.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey can be robotically operated by people on the ground. They can work autonomously. And of course, when we have human crew missions, they will be driven by the humans.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rovers weigh in around one metric ton each \u2013 about the weight of a Fiat 500 \u2013 and need to fold up to fit into the landers. They can travel up to 6.2mph and go up slopes of 20 degrees.<\/p>\n
The first design chosen is Astrolab\u2019s Crewed Lunar Vehicle, or CLV-1, which resembles a small coach without horses, and can carry two astronauts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Garc\u00eda-Gal\u00e1n, Nasa\u2019s Moon base programme executive, said: \u201cThe LTVs [lunar terrain vehicles] will give astronauts the ability…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,1586,174720,50,90,416,5438,56,54,55,157732],"class_list":["post-607368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-moon","tag-nasa-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-news","tag-science","tag-space","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}