Apollo programme (Missions 15, 16, and 17) during 19. The automaker's subsidiary GM Defense LLC "is on the front end" of this, Ryder said, "because it's a government opportunity, but we have reached back into the the full scale and scope of GM engineering, R&D and the capabilities of the broader corporation, so this is very much a one-team GM effort.As the Moon landings progressed Dinky reflected the interest in space and produced the 355 Lunar Rover Vehicle based on NASA’s Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) which was a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon during the last three missions of the U.S.A. The companies didn't specify an investment amount. some of that we'll pull off the shelf and the rest as a team we're gonna figure out how to get it done." When asked if the vehicle will be based off an existing GM product, Jeff Ryder, vice president of growth and strategy at GM Defense, said: "This is a more ambitious vision for lunar habitation and mobility. "Really the capabilities of the vehicle are still in formulation," he said, adding that Lockheed and GM teams are "making great inroads on electrification and autonomy and vehicle concepts and our experts are leveraging all our experience in building landers and building deep space probes to come up with vehicles that will meet what we need to do." Kirk Shireman, vice president of lunar exploration campaigns at Lockheed, said the vehicle will be made of "very lightweight, very strong and resilient materials." Lockheed and GM are in the early stages of development but plan for the LTV to be an electric vehicle since combustion engines cannot be used on the moon, Wexler said. NASA may publish a formal request for proposals from American companies to develop the LTV at a later date." "Additionally, NASA plans to hold an industry day later this year to provide the community with updated LTV (lunar terrain vehicle) information and enable commercial readiness for this endeavor. Last year, NASA issued two requests for lunar mobility approaches and commercial concepts, and those "responses provide NASA valuable insight to shape a lunar surface mobility plan and inform a potential future acquisition strategy," the federal space agency said in a statement to The Detroit News on Wednesday. "The potential for what we're producing with Lockheed will help drive science, innovation and technology forward exponentially we believe for all of humankind," said Alan Wexler, senior vice president of innovation and growth at GM, during the media call. These next-generation lunar vehicles will be designed to travel longer distances to get to the moon’s south pole, which is colder, darker and has more rugged terrain. They plan to produce "a unique vehicle with innovative capabilities, drawing on their unparalleled engineering, performance, technology and reliability legacies," the companies said in a joint press release. GM will bring its knowledge of battery-electric and autonomous vehicle technologies to the table for the development. Lockheed Martin, which has more than 50 years of experience in working with NASA, will lead the team. "This partnership is really about getting ahead of NASA's future procurements that they may have and really looking at the commercial environment that's going to be on the lunar surface and building this partnership in advance of that, so that we can lead the way in mobility on the moon," said Lisa Callahan, vice president and general manager of commercial civil space at Lockheed Martin, on a call with media Wednesday. The companies expect a request for proposals to come later this year. NASA has asked industry leaders to send ideas for lunar rovers and for a new lunar terrain vehicle, or LTV, for its Artemis program, which is working to get astronauts back on the moon. is partnering with Lockheed Martin, a security and aerospace company, to develop lunar vehicles to potentially carry astronauts on the moon, the companies said Wednesday.
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