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Putting a Car on the Moon

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The Lunar Rover - Part Two

i love the episode about the lunar rover, which is basically a car. Engineers are right now to day, building a new lunar rover, a new car to drive on the moon. So so let's start out with the, with the old lunar rover, right? Like, justt just get me into that story.

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Speaker 2
So, i love the episode about the lunar rover, which is basically a car, right? Ye? I meand a list like a geep. You'vd probably, if you're listening, coblesing pictures hguys driving on the moon, rag right,
Speaker 1
in their spacesuits, and they've got the, you know, the satellite dish and those wild mesh wire wheels. There are two different models of the lunar rover, right? There's the first one that
Speaker 2
we built, that engineers built, like, what is it now, 50, 60 years ago, when when people went to the moons for the first time. So part one of the show is going to be you telling me that story. And then part two of the show is sort of excitingly. Engineers are right now to day, building a new lunar rover, a new car to drive on the moon. For the next, you know, for this, planned a new mission to the moon. So so let's start out with the, with the old lunar rover, right? Like, justt just get me into that story. Whe it starts in, what, the the fifties? There re only sixties. Must be the sixties. It's
Speaker 1
sixties. And the time line was very, very tight. A what they found was a, the the earliest apollo missions were really limited in scope by how far the astronons could travel.
Speaker 2
You couldn't really erbas exactly
Speaker 1
exactly. It took a lot of energy. They didn't t have a lot of air, and so they couldn't really do science up there. They couldn't really interrogate the surface of the moon. And now, the idea of having a car on the moon, it's kind of ridiculous, right?

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