NASA's plan to build a train track on the moon is part of the agency's Innovative Advanced Concepts program, which aims to develop "science fiction-like" projects for future space exploration.
NASA wants to build a floating railway on the surface of the moon. Called FLOAT, the technology relies on autonomous robots ...
NASA has revealed that they are planning to eventually build a levitating train on the moon in the next decade. This plan comes as the space agency seeks to develop what they call ...
Does a levitating robot train on the moon sound far-fetched? NASA doesn’t seem to think so ... according to the agency. "We want to build the first lunar railway system, which will provide ...
NASA has unveiled how it plans to colonise the Moon soon, using a network of railways, that will use FLOAT or Flexible Levitation on a Track train. The FLOAT system will use robotic transports ... as ...
a robotics engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “We want to build the first lunar railway system, which will provide reliable, autonomous, and efficient payload transport on the moon.” ...
Does a levitating robot train ... moon — if they can find their footing on Earth first RELATED STORIES —The moon is shrinking, causing landslides and moonquakes exactly where NASA wants to ...
If the idea of building a train on the ... a Wall of Death on the moon to help keep astronauts fit in low gravity In a NASA blog post, Dr Schaler writes: 'We want to build the first lunar railway ...
A durable, long-life robotic transport system will be critical to the daily operations of a sustainable lunar base in the 2030’s As sci-fi concept to build a railway on the moon has inched closer to ...
Concept of the levitating robot train that NASA wants to build on the Moon. Image source: Ethan Schaler / NASA Ethan Schaler, a robotics engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL ...