Topic: Desert RATS – On The Move

[sam]

For some fourteen years now NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert RATS) team has been testing out the viability of many of NASA’s vehicles, space suits, habitats and robotic systems in extreme environments.   Like their durable name-sake, the Desert RATS have proven to be resilient and flexible, adapting to the changing NASA environment. When it was announced that NASA would move away from the Constellation Program and toward other objectives such as asteroids and possibly Mars – the Desert RATS picked up the challenge and modified their regimen to reflect this change.

http://www.universetoday.com/71691/desert-rats-on-the-move/

[Clive]

They look cool!  Technology is relentless!