Wednesday, January 21, 2009

The President and the Mobile Moon Bubble

“The LER performed flawlessly in front of the President,” tweets NASA. And so it did, at the very end of the inaugural parade: dropping off a passenger dressed appropriately for the weather — who then walked off with the flag.

Here’s video of the Johnson Space Center’s new Lunar Electric Rover in action yesterday:

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Photo: Bill Ingalls (via Robert Jacobs)

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One Comment

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    From laanba:

    This was the one thing from the parade that I wanted to see so thank you for posting this.

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