Toyota lands in space, soon we will see cars and no longer spaceships walking among the various rocky craters of the Moon. When we say their vehicle is spacecraft we are not exaggerating.
The human mind is constantly searching for discoveries always new and innovative. It doesn’t matter the sector, just move forward and don’t stand still. If you think about it, it is thanks to this spirit that they were made strides from the most varied sectors, whether in medicine, construction, information technology and so on.
The various researchers will always try to discover new things and certainly the goal of succeeding travel in space it is one of the human desires since times gone by. As they said in Star Trek: “Space, final frontier. Here are the travels of the starship Enterprise during its five-year mission, aimed at exploring strange, new worlds, in search of other forms of life and civilization, until reaching where no man has ever gone before”.
More or less we have summary what human beings have always wanted to do. Who knows why, it may also be due to the various futuristic films we see, when we imagine ourselves exploring the Moon or one of the other planets of the Solar System, we always imagine a spaceship, be it the vintage one from Star Trek or the most recent one of Avatars.
How many of you, however, would have ever thought that you would go into space…in car? Well yes, the project of Toyota It will leave you speechless, their vehicle is space-age in every sense. In the end, will they also have to fear rush hour on the Moon in the near future?
Toyota and their spacecraft
Let’s start by telling you that this project which we will tell you about shortly was born in 2019 and if all goes as planned, this vehicle will be ready for the 2031 It is in the 2032 will be shipped on moonwhere astronauts will be able to sit comfortably without helmets.
In fact, inside the car they will be safe and will be able to breathe oxygen as in the nearest space station. Its autonomy will be 10 years and the mission itself should last approx 30 days and every day this revolutionary vehicle from Toyota will travel approx 20 kilometers, managing to adapt completely to holes, craters and typical lunar soil.
A revolutionary project
This new spacecraft designed by Toyotait will be called Lunar Cruiser and it will be a six-wheeled rover, born from NASA’s collaboration with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Toyota and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The vehicle will be powered by hydrogenwill be able to carry 4 astronauts (2+2), will be completely autonomous and will exploit technology LIDARthanks to which it will be able to analyze the position of the stars using the radio navigation system.
His task will be to gather any information it can capture and this will also be possible thanks to its ability to move in the jagged lunar area. For the tyres, Bridgestone will also participate in the project, to return tires that will resist any difficulty they encounter. We attach the presentation video to give you an idea of what it will be like Lunar Cruiser by Toyota, a true miracle of modern engineering don’t you think?
