With about two-and-a-half years to go until a planned crewed-mission to the moon, NASA is still deciding which company will receive a greenlight to build the Artemis program’s lunar terrain vehicle (LTV). In the meantime, they’re also on the lookout for a good set of tires. A lunar rover doesn’t simply sport a set of super-durable rubber tires. While plenty of prototypes exist, the last rover tires to actually touch down on the moon arrived on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. After over 50 years of additional research, discoveries, and technological breakthroughs, the plan is now to go where no lunar rover has gone before.