According to Goodyear engineers, development of the original Apollo lunar mission tyres and the new Spring Tyre were driven by the fact that traditional rubber, pneumatic (air-filled) tyres used on Earth, have little utility on the moon
THE US NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA) AND GOODYEAR HAVE DEVELOPED AN AIRLESS TYRE TO TRANSPORT LARGE, LONG-RANGE VEHICLES ACROSS THE SURFACE OF THE MOON
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and The Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Company (NYSE: GT) have developed an airless tyre to transport large, long-range vehicles across the surface of the moon.