#Lunar Roving Vehicle

[lonestarflight]

TV Camera on the Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV-3) in motion.

Yuri Krasilnikov has combined them into a gif.

Date: December 11-13, 1972

NASA ID: AS17-141-21492, 93, 94, and 95

[spacefrontier]

Apollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot Jim Irwin stands near the Lunar Roving Vehicle at the end of EVA-1. Mons Hadley towers in the background. July 31, 1971.

Project Apollo Archive

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Ad Astra (2019, James Gray)

04/11/2024

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Inktober 2024 - Day 18 - Drive BONUS

Ok to make it go I think I push this buttooooooooooooooooooooo-

[yourfuturemachine]

Nissan and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are developing an all-terrain rover. The goal is to assist future lunar exploration missions. What makes this rover unique is its e-4ORCE all-wheel control technology. e-4ORCE is the same technology that Nissan has in its Ariya EV. Nissan’s focus for the project is to build a rover that can overcome obstacles. With improved driving performance on surfaces that are powdery, rocky, and uneven. Learn more at nissannews.com

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February 14, 2023

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Florida

[teachersource]

On July 30, 1971 the first Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was delivered to the surface of the Moon by the crew of Apollo 15. They explored the lunar surface until August 2nd before flying back home, leaving the LRV on the Moon.

[formlab]

Deployment simulation of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV)

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle

[livingforstars]

Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magnificent Desolation - April 20th, 1996.

"Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Lunar Module pilot and the second human to walk on the Moon, described the lunar landscape as "a magnificent desolation". Dramatic pictures from the Apollo missions to the Moon's surface testify to this apt turn of phrase. Near the Apollo 17 landing site, Family Mountain (center background) and the edge of South Massif (left) frame the lunarscape in this photo of astronaut Harrison Schmitt working alongside the lunar roving vehicle. Schmitt and fellow astronaut Eugene Cernan were the last to walk on this magnificent desolation."

[lonestarflight]

Grumman concept art of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (Lunar Rover) deployment for Apollo 15.

Posted on Flickr by Drew Granston: link, link, link, link, link

[spacefrontier]

Apollo 17 Commander Eugene A. Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison H. Jack Schmitt are preparing the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) and the Communications Relay Unit (LCRU) mission simulation. Support Team Astronaut Gordon Fullerton, standing, left, discusses test procedures to be performed in the High Bay of the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB). The Lunar Module Ascent and Descent stages also receive preflight checkout in preparation for the sixth U.S. manned lunar landing mission. August 8, 1972.

NASA

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Apollo 15 (July 26 – August 7, 1971) was the ninth crewed mission in the United States' Apollo program and the fourth to land on the Moon. It was the first J mission, with a longer stay on the Moon and a greater focus on science than earlier landings. Apollo 15 saw the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle.

I got to sit in a rover prototype at Motorola in 1972. What an incredible experience. I remember the wire-composition wheels vividly.

[theofficialastronomy101]

Apollo 15 Fourth crewed Moon landing 4K Quality

Apollo 15 (July 26 – August 7, 1971) was the ninth crewed mission in the United States' Apollo program and the fourth to land on the Moon. It was the first J mission, with a longer stay on the Moon and a greater focus on science than earlier landings. Apollo 15 saw the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle.

[gemini-enthusiast]

Some other miscellaneous space program artifacts:

Gemini IV helmet worn by Ed White on the first American spacewalk

Other Gemini IV objects

Mike Collins’ beta cloth jumpsuit worn on Apollo 11

Gene Kranz’s Apollo 13 vest

The fender of the lunar roving vehicle broken by Gene Cernan, and their quick fix made of cardboard and duct tape

A camera from Surveyor 3, brought back from the moon by Apollo 12

The actual Hasselblad camera used by Apollo 8 to take the famous Earthrise photo

[just--space]

Apollo 16 Moon Panorama : Fifty years ago, April 20, 1972, Apollo 16's lunar module Orion touched down on the Moon's near side in the south-central Descartes Highlands. While astronaut Ken Mattingly orbited overhead in Casper the friendly command and service module the Orion brought John Young and Charles Duke to the lunar surface. The pair would spend nearly three days on the Moon. Constructed from images (AS16-117-18814 to AS16-117-18820) taken near the end of their third and final surface excursion this panoramic view puts the lunar module in the distance toward the left. Their electric lunar roving vehicle in the foreground, Duke is operating the camera while Young aims the high gain communications antenna skyward, toward planet Earth. via NASA