NASA electric lunar rover struts its stuff for the President
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted January 23rd 2009 10:54AM
posted January 23rd 2009 10:54AM
For the Inaugural Parade, NASA astronauts greeted our new President in the style befitting such an august organization (and one that'll take all the funding they can get) by trotting out their Small Pressurized Rover. Hopefully by 2012 this thing will be spending less time cruising around Washington DC and more time on the lunar surface, where it can support two intrepid explorers for up to two weeks at a time. It sure looks cramped, but man, what a view! Check out some video of the thing in action -- in the nation's capital and in the wild -- after the break.
[Via Billionaire Boys Club]
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Timeshift pic?
was this shot on the moon?
FAKE!! this wasn't actually on the moon.
super hot asian chick in space suit.
HOAX
WD40 anyone?
Would be cool if it fired some Jet engines and hovered for a couple minutes or so...just looks like a float to me.
Off Point: "Billionaire Boys Club"??? what's a clothing site got to do with technology?
Seeing it tested here in Houston at the Space Center, it was nice to see in the parade also.
The chariot from Lost in Space had better visibility.
http://www.cloudster.com/sets&vehicles/Chariot/Chariotreal.htm
Please, Pres. Obama, don't cut NASA! I love space stuff.
Lando!
Exactly what I was going to say. As much as I like President Obama (god that feel good to write), he's been pretty clear with the transition team that NASA funding isn't high on his list of priorities. Maybe when we start saving $9 billion a month we can pump some more money back into the space program.
Isn't that funny - NASA isn't on his priority list, but paying to support overseas abortion activists is. Whether you agree with abortion or not, I think we can all agree our bankrupt government has no business wasting more of your money & my money on it. If people want abortions, let them pay for it themselves. I would much rather see that tax money sent to NASA!!
Why do you think he's laughing and smiling the whole time? "Silly humans. That thing will never leave earth under my administration!"
Colt .45.....works every time.
I want Obama to go to Area 51 and disclose everything to the public!
file a FOIA Request....
US Presidents know nothing about Area 51, officially.
Plausible deniability?
Why not 4X the size of NASA? It is pretty cheap already compared to the other crap government agency's. This would add all kinds of higher paying tech jobs that the economy needs. Hell let's go to Mars in 10 years that will excite more people into engineering too(something he keeps talking about).
2012? NASA's trying to get back to the Moon by 2020. Having one of these on the moon in 2012 probably wouldn't do a whole lot of good since they're wouldn't be any people.
At least it's not held together with gaffer tape like the originals were!
Michelle looked pissed off when she didn't think the cameras were on her. I guess we know what "restoring science to its rightful place" means in her mind.
Look, you wanna be some sort of Jackie Kennedy, better have the man do some Kennedy stuff with Kennedy Space Center, understand?
I'm just waiting for XZibit to pop out and say "Yo son! We gon' pimp yo' ride!"
Had some beers last night with the transmission guy for this rover. Let's just say, "You ain't seen nothing, yet."
drunk engineers?! OMG!
Really NASA, REALLY! That's the best you can do it looks like it was designed by Fisher Price!
Do better then.
when you send men to the unknown, i think their potential casket's design could be considered secondary compared to keeping them alive
Come on guys, surely a better headline for this would have been "Moon-men invade Washington, march to White House!"