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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 .
Students traverse a simulated crater in a moonbuggy they designed and built themselves. The NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, prior to 2014 referred to as the Great Moonbuggy Race, is an annual competition for high school and college students to design, build, and race human-powered, collapsible vehicles over simulated lunar/Martian terrain.
Nasa has unveiled the lunar buggy concepts that will be developed for its upcoming crewed missions to the Moon.. Among the vehicles is a self-driving ‘Moon RACER’ built by US startup Intuitive ...
The space community has leapt into action since NASA canceled plans to launch its VIPER lunar rover. Here’s how — and why — a private company might save the vehicle. ... a wheeled moon buggy ...
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 ...
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
This casual footage of an astronaut cruising around the moon's surface during the Apollo 15 voyage is surreal. NASA’s hi-res footage of a ‘moon buggy’ shows space exploration in stunning ...