We’ve driven GM and Lockheed Martin’s new Lunar Vehicle

Enlarge / Obviously when we say we've driven GM's new Lunar Vehicle we mean we've driven it in the simulator in Milford, Michigan. (credit: Roberto Baldwin)

General Motors provided a flight from San Francisco to Detroit and back, plus a night in hotel so we could drive the Lunar Vehicle at GM's simulator. Ars does not accept paid editorial content.

MILFORD, MICH.-Over the radio, I've been instructed not to drive into the large crater near the south pole of the Moon. I had been circling the crest looking for a way in and as soon as mission control realized what I was about to do, it vetoed my heading. I turned away from the impact site and drove toward a hazy sun off in the distance determined to hit at least 25 km/h while battling the awkward effects of gravity one-sixth that of Earth.

General Motors and its partner Lockheed Martin are building a lunar rover without a NASA contract. They want to fly this vehicle to the Moon in support of the Artemis mission, because we're going back to the Moon to drive and GM wants to be there first.

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