Future robotic missions to the moon could require heavy vehicles that can range over thousands of miles of extraterrestrial landscapes--demands that would overhelm the wire-mesh wheels used on Apollo-era buggies, none of which traveled more than 22 miles. NASA and Goodyear Tire recently teamed up to develop a tire made of 800 independent springs, any of which can fail without compromising the rest of the tire. Engineers tested the design on NASA's Lunar Electric Rover over rocky terrain at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Gooyear hopes the though, airless tires generate interest from fire departments, mine owners and other operators of indispensable wheeled vehicles.
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It s amazing technology...Why doesn't make it for the common car?...lol
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