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I drove the 6,600-lb 'car' that NASA designed for astronauts on Mars, and I'll never see space exploration the same way again

Jessica OrwigJan 5, 2016, 22:37 IST

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It's not the fastest or the sleekest, but NASA's Space Exploration Vehicle (SEV) is definitely the coolest car on the planet - and hopefully, before too long, something like it will be the coolest car on other worlds as well.

The SEV is one of NASA's concepts for a new generation of flexible vehicles that can transport astronauts across near-earth asteroids and Mars. To see what this might be like, we got inside this 6,600-pound behemoth of a machine for a test run.

As you might expect, driving something that's designed for traipsing across another planet is an out-of-this-world experience.

Join us on the journey: