Electrical automobile startup Canoo has delivered its first cargo to NASA. This week, a trio of the corporate’s Crew Transportation Vehicles (CTVs) arrived on the Kennedy Area Middle in Florida. Though they appear to be they’re made for exploring the floor of the Moon, the vans are designed to hold astronauts to the KSC’s launch pads, beginning with NASA’s forthcoming Artemis 2 mission.
In keeping with Canoo, the vans, primarily based on the corporate’s present lifestyle vehicle design, can carry fully-suited astronauts, in addition to flight assist crew and any tools they could want. “The automobiles have an unique inside and exterior design that can present astronaut and crew consolation and security whereas on the nine-mile journey to the launch pad at Kennedy Area Middle,” the corporate mentioned, including it might share inside pictures of the automobiles later this 12 months.
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The Artemis 2 mission will see NASA launch its first crewed mission to the Moon for the reason that finish of the Apollo program in 1972. 4 astronauts will journey across the satellite tv for pc in the course of the 10-day flight. Throughout Artemis 2, NASA plans to conduct further assessments of its Orion capsule and Space Launch System (SLS) tremendous heavy-lift rocket to make sure each spacecraft are protected for future crewed missions to the lunar floor.
As for Canoo, this can be a probability for the automaker to drum up curiosity for its EVs. In Might 2022, the corporate warned traders it was running low on cash. Since then, it introduced an settlement with Walmart to supply the retailer with 4,500 EVs. The corporate additionally delivered a take a look at automobile to the US Army. Nonetheless, even with these offers in place, it has an extended approach to go earlier than reaching monetary sustainability.
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