Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.
NASA advised designers on the creation of the new Lego Technic Mars Crew Exploration Rover, despite it not being based on a real vehicle or existing space agency concept.Lego and NASA have a long history of collaborating, but a recently released building set launched the partnership in a new direction — both for the toy company and the space agency.— has ever built. For Lego, it was the first time that its Technic line of advanced working models focused on a fictional space vehicle.
"It is kind of a campervan for space," said Rouffiange."There is space for two crew members. You can open it and there is a whole living space inside. So you have a treadmill and shower ... all that astronauts need to survive on the planet. And then at the back, there are loads of cans for findings."and science samples, water, oxygen and hydrogen. In addition, the rover carries its own deployable fuel cell generator, with which to recharge its batteries.
The Lego Technic Mars Crew Exploration Rover has a chassis that folds in on itself, shortening the vehicle's length to fit within a rocket's fairing.In addition to its working crane for on- and off-loading equipment, the rear of the rover also has a lift., can't jump off the rover. They can't run or do things like that. So they need something to get off this vehicle, so I built in an elevator," Rouffiange said.
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