GM Lands Huge NASA Contract for Moon Mission

One of Michigan’s biggest companies is heading back to the moon, and honestly, that’s pretty freaking cool.

NASA just awarded a massive contract tied to its Artemis mission, and General Motors is once again involved in building technology for a lunar rover. Yep, GM is now helping design a vehicle that astronauts could be driving around on the moon in 2028.

According to the Detroit Free Press, the rover is called Pegasus, and GM Defense is helping develop the battery-electric propulsion system. Basically, they’re helping power the thing. And this isn’t some little side project either. NASA wants this rover to help establish a long-term human presence on the moon.

The cool part is, this isn’t some sci-fi movie. This is real life.

GM Is Helping Power NASA’s Moon Rover

Think about that for a second. Michigan-made technology rolling across the moon.

For years, GM has built vehicles tough enough to handle brutal Michigan winters. But compared to what they’re dealing with now, Michigan potholes and snowstorms are nothing.

This lunar rover has to survive temperatures that can drop to around minus 334 degrees during lunar nights, while also handling the rough terrain near the moon’s south pole. Yeah, that’s a little different than driving down I-75 in February… but honestly, maybe not by much.

The rover will reportedly be able to drive itself, be controlled remotely from Earth, or be manually driven by astronauts once they arrive on the moon.

GM Has Been Involved in Moon Missions Before

This also isn’t GM’s first moon mission. The company helped build the original lunar rover used during the Apollo missions back in the 1970s. So in a weird way, this feels like a pretty cool full-circle moment for GM.

Not everyone gets excited about space exploration, but honestly, we should be. Human beings have been explorers since the beginning of time. We crossed oceans, climbed mountains, and pushed into places people once thought were impossible to reach. Space is just the next awesome chapter of that story.

And the fact that GM is helping build the technology to get us there again? That’s pretty badass.