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First crewed lunar rover Apollo 16: Lunar Roving Vehicle: NASA: 21 April 1972 8.97301°S 15.50019°E: 3 h 26 min 26.55 km (16.50 mi) Apollo 17: Lunar Roving Vehicle: NASA: 11 December 1972 20.1908°N 30.7717°E: 4 h 26 min 35.89 km (22.30 mi) Furthest distance travelled by crewed lunar rover Artemis V: Lunar Terrain Vehicle: NASA: 2030 TBD
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The range, however, was operationally restricted to remain within walking distance of the lunar module, in case the rover broke down at any point. [21] The rovers were designed with a top speed of about 8 mph (13 km/h), although Eugene Cernan recorded a maximum speed of 11.2 mph (18.0 km/h), giving him the (unofficial) lunar land-speed record. [22]
The Soviet Union was the only other country to land a rover on the moon an Then you have to get the thing to actually drive.Humans put seven rovers on the moon and six on Mars. Since the 1970s ...
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 .
First soft landing on the Moon since 1976, lunar rover. Chang'e 4 China: 3 January 2019: First soft landing on the far side of the Moon, lunar rover. Beresheet Israel: 11 April 2019: Israeli lunar lander crash landed on the Moon. Chandrayaan-2 India: 8 September 2019
On March 17, 2010, Phil Stooke at the University of Western Ontario announced that he had located Lunokhod 2 in NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) images, [15] [16] [17] but later images showed the initial identification was incorrect (the identified point was a mark in the rover tracks near the end of the route, made as Lunokhod 2 turned ...
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