Unmanned vehicles this month zipped around a lunar-style landscape, but it was on Earth, where they had to fight 16 times the force of gravity that they would encounter on the moon. On the other hand, these vehicles would encounter harsher conditions on the moon, such as a lack of an Earth-style atmosphere. These are all considerations, as NASA prepares to return U.S. astronauts to the moon by 2020 aboard the Orion next-generation spacecraft and the Altair lander. NASA held…
NASA Robotic Vehicles Zip Around Moon-Like Landscape On Earth
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