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The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972. It is popularly called the Moon buggy, a play on the term "dune buggy". Built by Boeing, each LRV has a mass of 462 pounds (210 kg) without payload.
A lunar rover or Moon rover is a space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon. The Apollo program 's Lunar Roving Vehicle was driven on the Moon by members of three American crews, Apollo 15 , 16 , and 17 .
The moon buggy was the last NASA vehicle to visit Earth’s satellite. The video, which is in color, shows an astronaut cruising around the soft lunar soil in the LRV. The pitch-black sky against ...
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) is a lunar rover which was developed at the NASA Ames Research Center.Before the project was cancelled in 2024 the rover would have been tasked with prospecting for lunar resources in permanently shadowed areas of lunar south pole region, especially by mapping the distribution and concentration of water ice.
Moon Machines is a Science Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting the engineering challenges of the Apollo program to land men on the Moon. It covers everything from the iconic Saturn V to the Command Module, the Lunar Module, the Space Suits, the Guidance and Control Computer, and the Lunar Rover.
First Chinese extraterrestrial rover and first lunar rover in over 40 years. Chang'e 4: Yutu-2: CNSA: 3 January 2019 2186 days 1.455 km (0.904 mi) [2] as of 3 January 2023: Operational First rover on the far side of the Moon.
The rover is currently being manufactured, with an expected launch date no earlier than 2032. [3] The rover itself will use fuel-cell electric-vehicle technologies. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] An update by the development team in late 2023 indicated the very first cruiser would be deployed along with the first moonbase. [ 6 ]
The development of the six-wheeled rover began in 2002 and was completed in May 2010. [14] [15] [16] The rover deployed from the lander and explored the lunar surface independently. The rover's name was selected in an online poll, and is a reference to the pet rabbit of Chang'e, the goddess of the Moon in Chinese mythology. [16]