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Bookmark or Share- The Lunar Roving Vehicle: A Complete Guide - Apollo11SpaceDuring a training session at the Kennedy Space Center, Apollo 16 astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke, Jr. skillfully navigated a practice version of the lunar roving vehicle across a field designed to mimic the Moon’s surface. The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) revolutionized moon exploration.
- The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle - NSSDCAThe Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was an electric vehicle designed to operate in the low-gravity vacuum of the Moon and to be capable of traversing the lunar surface, allowing the Apollo astronauts to extend the range of their surface extravehicular activities.
- Lunar rover - WikipediaA 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.
- VIPER - NASA ScienceNASA's Artemis lunar rover, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is designed to explore the relatively nearby but extreme environment of the Moon in search of ice and other potential resources. This mobile robot was slated to land at the South Pole of the Moon on a 100-day mission.
- Lunar Roving Vehicle - WikipediaThe 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.
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