dabolton@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 3, 10:35 am, charliexmur...@yahoo.com wrote: On Jul 3, 11:05 am, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" <mooregr_deletet...@greenms.com> wrote: <dabol...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:477b3da3-d98e-48c7-a656-5c17b90fe378@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... Why does NASA persist in spending millions of dollars developing new,
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 06:28:42 -0700 (PDT), "dabolton@gmail.com" <dabolton@gmail.com> wrote: Why does NASA persist in spending millions of dollars developing new, innovative vehicles for traversing the moon? Because the conditions are entirely different. Modifying existing designs would end up more or less as expensive as starting from scratch, but would almost certainly be heavier, and every
A bit heavy and hardly designed for the low gravity environment though, don't you think? Brian -- Brian Gaff - briang1@blueyonder.co.uk Note:- In order to reduce spam, any email without 'Brian Gaff' in the display name may be lost. Blind user, so no pictures please! <dabolton@gmail.com> wrote in message news:477b3da3-d98e-48c7-a656-5c17b90fe378@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... Why
On Jul 3, 11:05 am, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" <mooregr_deletet...@greenms.com> wrote: <dabol...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:477b3da3-d98e-48c7-a656-5c17b90fe378@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... Why does NASA persist in spending millions of dollars developing new, innovative vehicles for traversing the moon? There are literally dozens of desert vehicles on earth, quad
Why does NASA persist in spending millions of dollars developing new, innovative vehicles for traversing the moon? There are literally dozens of desert vehicles on earth, quad runners, 4x4's, dune buggied designs etc that already exist that would do what many of these proposed vehicles do already. just retrofit them with electric motors and be done with it. we dont need new frames, 8 wheeled turning
