Inside NASA's New Moon Rover

Inside NASA’s New Moon Rover
“Forgetting politics for a moment, the folks at NASA have managed to come up with a good guess at how such a rover might work – and have created something that you can drive. More importantly you can use it to perform meaningful work. To be certain, this is a vehicle that is designed to work on Earth – pneumatic tires, no life support system, etc. But that is not what it is designed to test. Rather, it is designed to be used as a rover might be used on the moon – not how you’d build the subsystems etc. for an actual moon rover. Once the utility requirements are firm, then you go and design the actual lunar rover. “