{"id":98491,"date":"2019-11-13T23:03:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T07:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/caterpillars-autonomous-vehicles-may-be-used-by-nasa-to-mine-the-moon-and-build-a-lunar-base"},"modified":"2019-11-13T23:03:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T07:03:28","slug":"caterpillars-autonomous-vehicles-may-be-used-by-nasa-to-mine-the-moon-and-build-a-lunar-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/caterpillars-autonomous-vehicles-may-be-used-by-nasa-to-mine-the-moon-and-build-a-lunar-base","title":{"rendered":"Caterpillar\u2019s autonomous vehicles may be used by NASA to mine the moon and build a lunar base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/caterpillars-autonomous-vehicles-may-be-used-by-nasa-to-mine-the-moon-and-build-a-lunar-base2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caterpillar has been synonymous with big, heavy equipment \u2014 for farming, construction and mining \u2014 since Holt Manufacturing and C. L. Best Tractor merged in 1925 to form the Peoria, Illinois-based company. Over the years, tons of innovation have been built into the iconic yellow products, too, from the Model 20 Track-Type Tractor introduced in 1927 to the ginormous engines that helped power the Apollo 11 mission to the moon 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, one of Cat\u2019s latest breakthroughs is self-driving, or autonomous, and remote-controlled mining equipment, which could very well find itself on the moon when NASA is scheduled to return to the lunar surface in 2024, with plans to build a permanent base near the orb\u2019s south pole, part of the Artemis program.<\/p>\n<p>Just as on terrestrial sites, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=CAT\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" rel=\"\" target=\"\" title=\"\" role=\"\" tabindex=\"\" data-type=\"\" aria-label=\"\">Caterpillar<\/a> fully or semi-autonomous bulldozers, graders, loaders and dump trucks could be utilized to build roads, housing and other infrastructure. Operator-less drilling and digging machines might mine water, oxygen-rich rocks and moon dust for use in 3D printing of various materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caterpillar has been synonymous with big, heavy equipment \u2014 for farming, construction and mining \u2014 since Holt Manufacturing and C. L. Best Tractor merged in 1925 to form the Peoria, Illinois-based company. Over the years, tons of innovation have been built into the iconic yellow products, too, from the Model 20 Track-Type Tractor introduced in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1506,15,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-food","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98491","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}