The Apollo 15 mission of 1971 ... the first time anyone drove a car on the moon (a milestone for EVs and epic road trips); brought back a giant chunk of lunar crust dubbed “The Genesis Stone ...

(Lego's nod to Apollo 15 is subtle ... weight of the rover and astronauts when in the one-sixth gravity environment on the moon.) The Lego Technic NASA Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle - LRV set ...

Dave Scott, Al Worden and Jim Irwin were the crew of Apollo 15, the first mission to use the four-wheel-drive lunar rover. John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan ...

The vehicle's blocky upper section, the ascent stage, blasted the crew off the moon a day later. For the Apollo program, NASA commissioned 15 flight-ready lunar modules. Saturn V rockets launched ...

A Bible was left on a lunar rover in the Hadley Plains area of the moon by David Scott, commander of the Apollo 15 mission, in 1971.

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...