#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

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Ad Astra (2019, James Gray)

04/11/2024

[i-am-worm]

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

[sabistarphotos]

February 14, 2023

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Florida

[ages-and-pages]

Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison Schmitt and the Lunar Roving Vehicle

FREE HIGH RESOLUTION PUBLIC DOMAIN SPACE PHOTOS on Flickr

[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

[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

[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."

[bignaz8]

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.

[yuri-badiner]

The Apollo LRV

My MOC Lunar Rover, inspired by the real-life “The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle”. This is an electric vehicle designed to operate in low lunar gravity. Yes, some people had a chance to drive electric cars long before it became mainstream.

Four lunar rovers were built by Boeing in the early 70’s, one each for Apollos 15, 16, and 17, and one that was used for spare parts after the cancellation of further Apollo missions.

The Lunar Roving Vehicle had a mass of 210 kg and was designed to hold a payload of an additional 490 kg on the lunar surface. A large mesh dish antenna was mounted on a mast on the front center of the rover. Power was provided by two 36-volt silver-zinc potassium hydroxide non-rechargeable batteries with a capacity of 121 amp-hr.

Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 said, "....the Lunar Rover proved to be the reliable, safe and flexible lunar exploration vehicle we expected it to be. Without it, the major scientific discoveries would not have been possible; and our current understanding of lunar evolution would not have been possible."

I never got around to taking any kind of artistic photo of this rover (apart from the title photo); it still lies in a container called “Maybe later.”

[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.