One of the pioneers in the aerospace industry is indeed United States of America. This big country has the best companies which with cooperation can build the best products ever. We see some junior companies like Tesla who try hard to be among the bests. Tesla lunched the Roadster without any meaningful thoughts to the depts of space in 2018, but one company like General Motors, developed the Apollo 15's Lunar Rover in 1971.
in the time that Tesla is playing with some financial markets, GM is called back to the new mission. This time we see along with the General Motors Name, the Lockheed Martin’s name too. They came together to make the next-generation of Lunar Rover to be called a Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV). Lockheed and GM to big name which means much for the aerospace lovers.
Lockheed Martin has a very long story in the aviation industry and also it has a 50-year history of working with NASA on deep-space human and robotic spacecraft. And GM has best expertise with the battery-electric technologies and propulsion systems. Moreover, GM has the autonomous technology to make the operation on moon, safer and more efficient. Alan Wexler, senior vice president of Innovation and Growth at General Motors states:
"General Motors made history by applying advanced technologies and engineering to support the Lunar Rover Vehicle that the Apollo 15 astronauts drove on the Moon,"
He also added:
"Working together with Lockheed Martin and their deep-space exploration expertise, we plan to support American astronauts on the Moon once again."
For the feedback, the apollo lunar rovers got away from the landing site just 7.6 km. those time, it was a big achievement. But now, the combination of GM and Lockheed Martin aimed for farther distances, notably up to the Moo's south pole where it's cold and dark, riddled with more rugged terrain. This is on of the first ever adventures by the humanity.
As mentioned, GM will use its autonomous and self-driving systems for the human landings and also provide commercial payload services and enhance the range and utility of scientific payload and experiments.