“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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• Lunar Rover: Inaugural Parade [YouTube]
• NASA [Twitter]
• Houston Moon Salute: Inaugurating the New NASA Lunar SUV [Swamplot]

Photo: Bill Ingalls (via Robert Jacobs)