They are so dedicated and wouldn’t take no for an answer. “If I was in charge, I’d want any one of these guys working on my team. “The Polaris team reminds me of my team,” Morea said before taking a seat in the LRV for its downtown ride. Morea was amazed at the work performed by Polaris engineers. Polaris may not have created history with its replica LRV, but its engineers did a marvelous job recreating a key part of man’s first mission to put a man on the moon. Accompanying the Polaris team and Morea was Mayor Battle, Marshall Space Flight Center Director Jody Singer, Space Center CEO Deborah Barnhart, and a host of former NASA engineers and space fans.
The Polaris replica of NASA’s original LRV made its first public appearance on Friday night, July 19, for a symbolic Lunar Rover Walk from the Von Braun Center to the Downtown Square in Huntsville. The Mayor presented company executives with a toy model of the Lunar Rover with the suggestion that building one for NASA could be in the company’s future. Mayor Tommy Battle’s pitch for the LRV came in 2015 when Polaris first announced its intentions to build a Huntsville plant. Being in the room with those people was just amazing. Morea, the program manager (of the original LRV), three of the engineers and an astronaut, Robert Stewart. “They did bring some big guns with them,” Ogle said with a smile. The approach to the pitch, along with a subtle pitch, also didn’t hurt. Put those two things together and the decision to build a working replica of the original NASA Lunar Rover Vehicle (LRV) was an easy one to make.Īt least, that’s the way Polaris Industries Manager of Manufacturing Engineering, Bryan Ogle, viewed it when his company was approached about building a replica of the vehicle for the 50 th anniversary celebration of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon.
The moon’s lunar surface certainly qualifies as being off the road. Polaris Industries specializes in building off-road vehicles.
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