The NASA Chariot is just one potential design for a new lunar rover in the works, intended to serve as the workhorse for a permanent lunar station they plan to have in operation by 2020. It may seem like announcing a permanent settlement on the moon in just over a decade would be big news for NASA, but they just kind of slipped it under the radar here and placed the real emphasis on this sweetass concept vehicle instead. I actually think that’s a good move. The hard sciences are posting increasingly lax numbers for new recruits, and promising kids that if they get good grades and work real hard they can get a job as an astronaut - where they’ll spend all of their time in a tiny metal room with no entertainment, doing math problems – isn’t exactly enticing. That’s like promising that if you eat all of your vegetables and do your chores, you’ll get grounded forever. In outer space. And if you try to sneak out, your eyeballs explode.
So, of course they’re stressing their badass new rover first. Look at that thing.