Out of this World: Goodyear’s Prototype Lunar Vehicle Tire

Talk about re-inventing the wheel or in this case, the tire. The non pneumatic tire featured in the picture above is a prototype model developed by Goodyear for use first on the moon and eventually on Mars. Using the 1960s Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle’s (LRV) wire mesh moon tire as a base, Goodyear has been working with NASA to improve the original design.The original LRV tire that was woven out