Goodyear Joins Lockheed Martin to Commercialize Lunar Mobility
AKRON, Ohio, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NASDAQ: GT) supplied essential products for NASA's Apollo program, including the Apollo 11 mission which landed on the Moon 53 years ago today. The company will continue that tradition—focusing on lunar vehicle tires—by joining Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) in its development of a lunar mobility vehicle.
- The company will continue that traditionfocusing on lunar vehicle tiresby joining Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) in its development of a lunar mobility vehicle .
- Since Apollo, Goodyear continued innovating alongside NASA to advance designs for a lunar vehicle tire.
- Goodyear brings its vast expertise in a mission-critical component to traverse the lunar surface, tires.
- Goodyear is drawing from its advanced airless tire technology used on Earth with micro-mobility, autonomous shuttles and passenger vehicles, to advance lunar mobility and withstand the challenging conditions on the Moon.