A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini ...

The only consistent thing about NASA’s VIPER lunar rover is that the road to the moon has been a rocky one. And now the space agency has nixed its attempt to find a commercial partner to launch ...

the famous LRV moon buggy used during the Apollo program was controlled by astronauts sitting within the vehicle. The MAPP will also be the first rover at the Lunar South Pole and the first purely ...

All but one of the Apollo program’s used lunar modules either crashed into the Moon’s surface or burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. Apollo 10’s lunar module, Snoopy, is still out there ...

Lunar Outpost has revised the design of the Lunar Dawn rover it is developing for NASA after Lockheed Martin left the team working on it. Credit: Lunar Outpost BREMEN, Germany — Lunar Outpost ...

The last time anyone drove on the Moon was way back in 1972 when the astronauts of Apollo 17 took the Lunar ... that will include taking an all-new lunar rover with it, and it's just started ...

Lego designers have done it again. One of the newest sets from the Technic team is a detailed recreation of the Apollo 17 lunar rover, which allowed the astronauts to travel the farthest distance ...

The set includes a displayable model version of the lunar rover module carried by Apollo 17, plus three attachable equipment sets," reads Lego's website. A natural follow-up to Lego's earlier ...

“Think of a hybrid of the Apollo-style lunar rover that was driven by our astronauts and an uncrewed mobile science platform. This will give the crew the capability to travel a distance much ...

The post uses an authentic photo found in the National Archives of Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin on the moon standing beside the first lunar roving vehicle (or rover) on Aug. 1, 1971.

The LRV’s used during Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions were designed to fold into the lunar module and could be deployed using a system of pulleys. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact ...

Marusiak was not directly involved in the study, though she did have contact with the authors as a fellow expert in lunar seismology. Marusiak noted that every Apollo mission carried instruments ...