[FPSPACE] FW: NASA Lunar Rovers/Vehicles

[LARRY KLAES]

A friend sent some photographs of prototype lunar vehicles
NASA recently tested in Washington state that he said I
could pass along for anyone interested.

The Athlete rover definitely looks like it belongs on an alien world.

Larry


>NASA came to our tiny town in the middle of Washington and decided to test 
>their lunar vehicles in our sand dunes...check it out!
>
>http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2056605&l=bb7f3&id=9507885
>
>
>The taller vehicle (the one with the environmental pod on its back) is 
>called the Athlete rover 
>(http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/systems/system.cfm?System=11), and the 
>shorter vehicle that looks like the lunar buggy of old is called the 
>Chariot  (im not familiar with what revision or model this one is).
>