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There was a Venturi Astrolab electric car company, a Monaco-based automotive manufacturer. Sacha Lakic worked at a French automotive company, a furniture and product designer 7kWh Lithium iron phosphate with Range 110 km (68 mi) he was at Peugeot a French brand of automobiles owned by Stellantis.
Astrolab’s FLEX Rover to be Launched on Upcoming SpaceX Mission to the Moon
https://spaceref.com/newspace-and-tech/ … -the-moon/
Upon completion of this mission, Astrolab’s FLEX will become the largest and most capable rover to ever travel to the Moon. With a maximum combined rover and cargo mass of more than two tons, the FLEX rover is nearly three times the mass of its largest predecessor.
This article says the company is based in USA California
Venturi Astrolab, Inc. (Astrolab) is on a mission to move humanity forward to the next horizon by designing, building and operating a fleet of multi-purpose rovers for all planetary surface needs. Formed by a highly specialized team of NASA veterans, former SpaceXers and JPL engineers, Astrolab is laser-focused on providing adaptive mobility solutions essential for life beyond Earth. The team has industry leading experience in terrestrial and planetary robotics, electric vehicles, human spaceflight and more. Astrolab’s depth of experience and strategic partnerships with a wide array of world-class institutions, including electric vehicle pioneer Venturi Group, enables the delivery of Lunar and Mars mobility offerings at maximum reliability, flexibility and cost effectiveness. The company is headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
We already have a number of threads discussing transport or a Mars or Moon vehicle from Toyota, Porsche, Skoda, Nissan, Honda, GM and the Ford Nucleon
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The highs and lows of extreme tourism: The Titan accident and commercial expeditions to space and the deep sea
https://thespacereview.com/article/4630/1
Tourists vs. explorers
I have studied tourism for decades as an anthropologist. Although my first field site, the French shrine of Rocamadour, is a religious location that attracts pilgrims, many of its visitors are secular, and the locale is a very popular tourist site as well. Anthropologists of pilgrimage (see, for instance, Badone 2010) have frequently noted that while it is considered honorable to be a religious pilgrim who visits a location with religious piety as one’s main motivation, tourism is often thought to be inferior. Badone writes that “the prevalent Western characterization of tourism [is] frivolous and hedonistic.” She notes, though, that there’s no clear-cut difference between a pilgrim and a tourist. In fact, it is possible for a tourist to become a pilgrim and a pilgrim to become a tourist very easily, switching back and forth based on activity and the mindset of the participant.
In 2020 I wrote about space tourism with Badone’s caution about indistinct categories in mind, arguing that space tourists (who often prefer to be call spaceflight participants because of the stigma associated with tourism) shift between the categories of tourist and explorer in similar ways. In an analysis of Anousheh Ansari’s visit to space in 2006, I wrote:
The work involved in being a spaceflight participant…sets it apart from the relaxation and play experienced by a tourist. By using the term “participant,” Ansari is indicating that she had a role to play in the mission being undertaken on the ISS and links her activities with the much more prestigious term “exploration” …The comparison Ansari is drawing, however, is not one of physical exertion, it is one of contributing to a shared project under potentially dangerous circumstances. Tourism is passive, while spaceflight participants see themselves as explorers—active, productive, willing to experience danger for the greater good …and helping to create an intensely believed-in future that will benefit humankind.
The term “exploration” has multiple definitions, as it turns out. Merriam-Webster online includes “to investigate, study, or analyze” as well as “to become familiar with by testing or experimenting” and ‘to travel over (new territory) for adventure or discovery.” “Tourism,” on the other hand, is defined as “the practice of traveling for recreation.” Whether one is taking a spacecraft above the Earth or a submersible to the bottom of the ocean, then, the terms “tourist” and “explorer” are subjective. There is no hard line between “discovery” and “recreation,” and like the pilgrim who turns into a tourist and back again, an explorer can move back and forth between investigating and passively enjoying the ride.
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