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NASA's secret moon base plan included a rolling laboratory that never left the ground

Before the moon landings were even complete, NASA was already plotting a permanent lunar base, and the MOLAB was the vehicle ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Looking Back at NASA’s Strange Mobile Lunar Laboratory

Once upon a time, NASA had big plans for the Moon. Really big. Gizmodo reports that back in the early 1960’s NASA commissioned General Motors to build the MOLAB, a mobile geological laboratory that ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s Moon-Bound Geology Lab that Never Quite Got Off the Ground

The rigor of operating outside the atmosphere has often led to rather outlandish NASA vehicle designs, but few have been more alien than this mobile lunar field laboratory from the heyday of the Space ...
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MoLab: NASA’s giant moon truck that never reached the moon

This video follows MoLab, NASA and General Motors’ massive mobile lunar laboratory, built in the 1960s to support two-week missions from a future Apollo lunar base. See how this 8,200-pound moon truck ...