NASA bought some new crew transports yesterday: a small fleet of three all-electric, “specifically designed” vans designed by EV startup Canoo that can shuttle the absolutely suited-up Artemis crew, assist personnel, and tools to the launchpad on the John F. Kennedy House Middle in Florida.
NASA will even use the brand new fleet for astronaut coaching workout routines forward of subsequent yr’s deliberate Artemis II mission — a kind of take a look at run that’ll zip astronauts across the Moon and again.
It might be the primary crewed mission out of low Earth orbit since 1972. If all goes nicely, Artemis III will observe with a 2025 launch, aiming to place a crew on the Moon’s floor.
NASA says its artistic workforce, which included the Artemis launch director and representatives from the Houston-based Johnson House Middle’s Astronaut Workplace, had enter on the vans’ inside and exterior markings and colours.
