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posted 01-22-2007 08:48 AM               

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So, uh, what are we looking at here, exactly?

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posted 01-22-2007 05:19 PM               

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More information courtesy Kelly Humphries, NASA's Public Affairs Specialist for the Constellation Program...

The LRV is the Science, Crew, Operations and Utility Testbed (SCOUT), which is not a real rover design but a testbed for potential rover technologies they may be employed.

Larry Toups, NASA's lead for habitations systems in the Constellation Program, is pictured sitting in SCOUT above.

The lunar habitat is a mock-up, but not of anything in the real design stages. Its use is as a human factors and requirements definition tool.

More photographs of the habitat and its interior were published by NASA in February 2006.

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posted 01-23-2007 09:42 AM               

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Something struck me as odd in those pictures, and it took me a second to figure out what it was.

That's a NASA mock-up designed for an environment WITH gravity.

How cool is that?

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