Lunar rover
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The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program during 1971 and 1972. It is popularly called the Moon buggy, a play on the term "dune buggy".
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Lunar rover; Lunar surface vehicle; Moon buggy
height 1.14 metre, length 3.1 metre, mass 210 kilogram,
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LRV Suspension
Apollo 15 - Jim Irwin at the LRV
Lunar Rover Wheel
Rover of the Apollo 17 mission Tech. Museum Speyer (Germany).
Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander, makes a short checkout of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) during the early part of the first Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.
Under the direction of Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was designed to allow Apollo astronauts a greater range of mobility during lunar exploration missions.
This photograph was taken during a deployment simulation of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). The LRV was built to give Apollo astronauts a greater range of mobility during the last three lunar exploration missions; Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17.
Under the direction of Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was designed to allow Apollo astronauts a greater range of mobility during lunar exploration missions.
James Irwin on the Moon saluting the flag during the Apollo 15 mission.
NASA Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle- Traverse Briefings for Apollo 16 Crew@ Apollo era document
- Intrepid: Lunar Roving Prospector Providing Ground Truth and Enabling Future Exploration@ conference paper published in 2011
- Vehicle Mobility Tests: Soft Soil Slopes@ Apollo-era document
- Science Ground Data System & Science Operations Organization for Remotely Controlled Lunar Traverses Phase "A" Study Report@ Apollo-era document
- Apollo 16, EVA planning assumptions, LRV traverse assessment: December 1971.@ document dealing with ALSEP
- A Study of Lunar Traverse Missions@ Apollo era document
- A Study and Analysis of the MSFC Lunar Roving Vehicle Dust Profile Test Program@ Apollo-era document
- Optimized Traverse Planning for Future Lunar Polar Prospectors@ conference paper published in 2014
- LRV Operations Handbook, Appendix A (Performance Data)@ Apollo-era document
- Trafficability of Lunar Microrovers (Part 1)@ lunar surface document
- Apollo Logistics Support System scientific mission support study: (study of sample experiments for engineering design purposes) final report@ 1965 document from Bendix Systems Division
- Defining Long-Duration Traverses of Lunar Volcanic Complexes with LROC NAC Images@ conference paper published in 2016
- Lunar Soil Simulation and Trafficability Parameters@ lunar surface document
- Trafficability of Lunar Microrovers (Part 2)@ lunar surface document
- Intrepid: Lunar Roving Prospector Providing Key Ground Truth Measurements and Enabling Future Exploration@ conference paper published in 2013
- Intrepid: Lunar Roving Prospector — Providing Ground Truth and Enabling Future Exporation@ conference paper published in 2014
- Trafficability of Lunar Microrovers (Part 3)@ lunar surface document
- Science on the lunar surface facilitated by low latency telerobotics from a Lunar Orbital Platform - Gateway@ article by Jack O. Burns et al published January 2019 in Acta Astronautica
- Lunar Surface Traverse and Exploration Planning: Farside Locations@ conference paper published in 2014
- Lunar Terrain and Traverse Data for Lunar Roving Vehicle Design Study@ Apollo era document
- Mobility Performance of the Lunar Roving Vehicle: Terrestrial Studies – Apollo 15 Results@ Apollo-era document
- Apollo Traverses and Summary of Science Discoveries@ presentation slides
- Apollo 16 LRV traverses. - document dealing with ALSEP (English)