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How Goodyear Developed Tires for the Moon

NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts around our moon, marking the first time humans have been anywhere near our nearest celestial buddy since 1972. The bravery of those four astronauts and the celebration of such an achievement can remind us all of previous trips to the moon and the engineering brilliance that got humankind there. Those design triumphs are many, but some of them came from sources you may not know of, like Goodyear, which developed the first rubber tires to touch down on the moon. However, the first rubber tire there wasn’t used for any of the awesome lunar rovers. It was actually built for a hand cart…

Source: Jalopnik

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