Posts: 53467 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 11-07-2024 07:01 PM
Please use this topic to discuss Intuitive Machines' Moon RACER, a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) for NASA's Artemis program.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 53467 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 11-07-2024 07:02 PM
Intuitive Machines' static mockup of the Moon RACER was reviewed and signed by Charlie Duke and Jack Schmitt.
The Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 lunar module pilots evaluated the LTV's design, with Duke telling IM that the Moon RACER was great and "way more than we had," while Schmitt took note of handles used to board the rover. "The stair handles are cute, but on the moon, we'd just jump onto the hood," an IM spokesperson paraphrased Schmitt as saying in reference to the lower lunar gravity environment.
Blackarrow Member
Posts: 3771 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
posted 11-08-2024 11:04 AM
The only man alive who has driven a car on the Moon is Dave Scott. Do we know if they asked his opinion?
That leads me to ask: did Jim Irwin, Charlie Duke or Jack Schmitt ever drive the LRV, even on a short relocation manoeuvre?
Headshot Member
Posts: 1347 From: Vancouver, WA, USA Registered: Feb 2012
posted 11-08-2024 11:10 AM
Hope the fenders are held more securely in place than those of the original LRVs. I assume that the front Texas Longhorn ornament will not be included on the flight version.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 53467 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 11-08-2024 11:44 AM
No assuming needed...
"No, we're not going to fly 7-foot-long horns to the moon, but we thought that it would be kind of fun today, because this is the Texas rover," said Jack Fischer, a former NASA astronaut who is now Intuitive Machines' senior vice president for production and operations.
posted 11-07-2024 07:01 PM
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