The Apollo 15 lunar rover vehicle (LRV) was designed to fold into the lunar module, contrary to suggestions in posts online that the moon landings must have been faked because it would have been ...

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While we may remember the "one small step" more than anything else, the first Lunar Rover has its own interesting story ...

The lunar rovers were able to fold up for flights to the moon, then unfold as they were being unloaded.

Although the historic Apollo 11 mission made do with a 2.5-hour walkabout on the lunar surface, Apollo missions 15, 16, and 17 each had their own lunar buggy to drive around the moon’s powdery ...

Apollo 15 astronaut Jim Irwin and the Lunar Roving Vehicle at the Hadley-Apennine landing site, July 31, 1971. “The first thing we noted…was that the front steering didn’t work,” said Dave ...

Unlike the rover first used during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, built to last only a few days and for short trips, the new lunar vehicle is being built for extended use. And this time, it’s ...

"Think of a hybrid of the Apollo style lunar rover that was driven by our astronauts and an uncrewed mobile science platform," Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston ...