{"id":129236,"date":"2021-10-20T00:44:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T07:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/step-aside-moon-buggy-the-worlds-first-moon-motorcycle-concept-is-here"},"modified":"2021-10-20T00:44:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T07:44:09","slug":"step-aside-moon-buggy-the-worlds-first-moon-motorcycle-concept-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/step-aside-moon-buggy-the-worlds-first-moon-motorcycle-concept-is-here","title":{"rendered":"Step Aside Moon Buggy, the World\u2019s First Moon Motorcycle Concept Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ad6cd4eJSu8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dresden-based motorcycle think tank Hookie has its eyes set on the moon. The company developed a drivable prototype for a two-wheeled lunar exploration vehicle. Named the Tardigrade, the vehicle is much lighter than your traditional moon buggy, meaning that the concept would be more cost-effective to launch to space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA moon buggy requires almost the same space as 3\u20134 Tardigrades,\u201d Nico M\u00fcller, one of Hookie\u2019s co-founders told us in an email interview. \u201cThe weight is much less than that of a complete buggy made out of steel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dresden-based motorcycle think tank Hookie has its eyes set on the moon. The company developed a drivable prototype for a two-wheeled lunar exploration vehicle. Named the Tardigrade, the vehicle is much lighter than your traditional moon buggy, meaning that the concept would be more cost-effective to launch to space. \u201cA moon buggy requires almost the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}