Tuesday, April 18, 2017

an engineer, and then Dr. Wernher von Braun test-drive the Mobility Test Article (MTA), a developmental vehicle built by the Bendix Corporation to test lunar mobility vehicle concepts.

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  1. Can't help it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Tank

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    1. posted that many years ago, damn shame there aren't any decent photos of it, nor a good remaining example or replica

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    2. Kansas Cosmosphere and this and another similar proto-type in storage in 2009, but don't know what status is now

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  2. Water crossing tests - you know - ya gotta make sure the machine can traverse all that lunar water.

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    1. HA! Good one, I hadn't even noticed the water/river.. thanks!

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