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1989 – MOSAP (MObile Surface APplication traverse vehicle) – NASA (American)

cyberne1 — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:06:21 +0000

American manned lunar rover. Study 1989. MOSAP (MObile Surface APplication traverse vehicle) was the pressurized lunar rover that was the key to NASA’s 90-Day-Study moon base concept of 1989. It would greatly extend the range of manned lunar expeditions. MOSAP had a maximum range of 3000 km with a nominal speed of 10 kph. MOSAP […]

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1940 onwards – Miscellaneous Lunar and Off World Rovers with Manipulators Concepts

cyberne1 — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:25:00 +0000

Most of the unmanned Lunar and Martian rover concepts were designed to use manipulator arms for sampling rocks and surface material. John Schoenherr’s (1935-2010) fabulous Moon Crawler painting pictured above, which he painted in 1961 for the cover of Analog magazine that year. Source: Project SWORD Project S.W.O.R.D. (SPACE WORLD ORGANISATION FOR RESEARCH […]

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1965 onwards – Miscellaneous Lunar and Off World Walker Concepts

cyberne1 — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:23:33 +0000

4-Legged robot space explorer. Robot Rescuing an Astronaut on the Lunar Surface. Robot reminiscent of Odex-1. Legged robot turning a valve. Model Lunar walker from the French children's book "Permieres Vacances Sur La Lune" [“First Vacation on the Moon”], Marc Heimer – 1967. Above: Prediction of life on the moon c1965. Illustration from the […]

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1959 – Lunar Construction Vehicle from Project HORIZON – U.S. Army (American)

cyberne1 — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 11:41:42 +0000

Lunar Construction Vehicle with manipulator arms. Above image from “The Next 50 Years on the Moon”, 1974. NASA Study Summary: “Project Horizon, Vol 2, Technical Considerations and Plans” Here’s a big study from 1959, done by the US Army, right about the time NASA was just becoming a going concern. There was a lot of […]

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1966 – “Lunar Worm” (Concept) – Dobson & Fulton of Philco (American)

cyberne1 — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:30:50 +0000

Artists concept of the Lunar Worm, showing a large, crawling Pneumatic bellows shelter, and a smaller transport vehicle with side-by-side circular bellows. The crawling motion is not gained by pumping fluid (air) in or out of the bellow segments, but uses a mechanical travelling-wave connected to the pneumatic-bellows structure. The Epoch Times July 20, […]

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1961 – RCA “Praying Mantis” Moon Walker – (American)

cyberne1 — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:17:40 +0000

In the early ‘60s, as part of the preparations for the Apollo manned moon landing mission, the Jet Propulsion Lab planned a follow-on program to its very successful ‘hard’ landing ‘Ranger’ program, which gave the first close-up views of the moon’s surface. The proposed ‘soft’ lander program was called ‘Surveyor’. An initial concept was for […]

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1961 – RCA “Centipede” Moon Walker – (American)

cyberne1 — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:17:03 +0000

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1961 – Sperry Rand Hybrid Moon Walker – (American)

cyberne1 — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:16:16 +0000

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1961 – Moonwalker Lunar Rover – Space General Corp. (American)

cyberne1 — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:00:25 +0000

Space General designers have built an insect-like vehicle with six legs, two arms, a triangular body, a solar-cell panel, and an antenna. The left arm, ending in a claw, picks up objects to examine. The right one holds a TV camera to do the looking – and to see where the vehicle is walking. This […]

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