Metalastic Wheels (1962) http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

On 7 November 1962, NASA told the world that it had selected Grumman Aircraft Engineering Company to manufacture the Apollo Lunar Module. Even before NASA tapped the company to build the LM, however, Grumman engineers had begun to look beyond Apollo. A paper presented in June 1962, for example, summed up 18 months of Grumman studies of advanced lunar locomotion systems. Their main result: the amazing metalastic wheel.



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