Bridgestone has partnered with Teledyne Brown Engineering to design and construct a crewed lunar terrain automobile.

The Japanese tire producer is teaming up with automaker Nissan North America to supply NASA, a automobile able to navigating the moon’s harsh terrain.

Industrial area firm Sierra House and plane producer Textron are additionally becoming a member of Bridgestone, Nissan and Teledyne.

Bridgestone will deal with the module’s tires. In a information launch final week, the corporate alluded to utilizing its “airless tires” now in growth.

“To make sure tire operate and security underneath tough working circumstances (rocky and sandy desert with publicity to excessive temperatures and cosmic ray radiation), the corporate is creating and validating metallic airless tire ideas,” the discharge mentioned.

Bridgestone and Nissan aren’t the one corporations within the automotive area which have signed on to a lunar venture this yr. Basic Motors introduced a partnership with Lockheed Martin in July to do the identical, utilizing its Ultium electrical automobile batteries.