How Canoo's Specially Designed EVs Will Participate In NASA Artemis Missions To The Moon

EV startup Canoo Inc GOEV will now be part of the U.S. vision to send astronauts back to the Moon.

What Happened: NASA received the vehicles that will take Artemis crews to the launchpad on Tuesday and the fleet is provided by none other than California-based Canoo.

Canoo delivered three specially designed, electric crew transportation vehicles to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday. The vehicles can transport four astronauts in spacesuits together with support personnel and has room for specialized equipment.

Several of the design elements on the vehicles were chosen by a team including Artemis launch director and representatives from NASA’s Astronaut Office, NASA said in a statement. As per a photograph shared by the space agency, the vehicles feature NASA and Artemis mission logos and have specifically designed wheel wells.

Why It Matters: Artemis II is scheduled for November 2024 and is the second of the two test flights planned before the U.S.’s return to the lunar surface. The four chosen astronauts will fly around the moon aboard the Orion Spacecraft and will be the first humans to venture farthest from Earth’s low earth orbit since NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

Prior to Artemis II, the Canoo fleet will be used for astronaut training exercises at the spaceport.

The United States is expecting to send astronauts to the surface of the moon for the second time by 2025-end with the Artemis III mission.

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