KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A wheel made in East Tennessee marks a step forward in the potential of 3D printing for space exploration. Oak Ridge National Laboratory collaborated with NASA to 3D print a ...

Lego is gearing up to deliver a detailed model of the original "rock and rolling ride," the electric buggy driven by NASA's last three Apollo crews to explore the moon. The new Lego Technic "NASA ...

The Lunar Vertex rover at Lunar Outpost prior to shipment to APL. The black cylinder on top is a mass model for the APL Vector Magnetometer–Rover (VMR). The VMR flight model instrument will be ...

The United States' first teleoperated rover to reach the moon's surface is rolling out as a Lego model this summer, together with two futuristic vehicles inspired by real-life robotic lunar explorers.

Lego designers have done it again. One of the newest sets from the Technic team is a detailed recreation of the Apollo 17 lunar rover, which allowed the astronauts to travel the farthest distance in ...

In just a few days, ORNL researchers used powder bed printing to create this lunar rover wheel based on a NASA design. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge ...

Through agile development and cooperation, Lunar Outpost and Johns Hopkins APL will send a rover to the Moon to explore Reiner Gamma. Lunar Outpost, Inc. has delivered its first flight model rover, ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with NASA, are taking additive manufacturing to the final frontier by 3D printing the same kind of wheel as ...