Lunar rover designed for compact travel, easy set-up. 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 ...

And then you realize you are not even a quarter of the way done. Announced in May, the Lego Technic NASA Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle - LRV was released for sale today (Aug. 1). The 1,913-piece set ...

The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) ultimately enabled Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt to venture as much as 4.7 miles (7.6 kilometers) away from their lunar module.

The Apollo Lunar Rover, like many NASA projects, was a pioneer in its field. An off-roader if there ever was one, the Rover came with many standard features prevalent in today’s sport/utility ...

The lunar rover may not have roamed the moon’s surface on the day Apollo 11 made history, but its design had already crystallized by the time Neil Armstrong planted his feet in the Sea of ...

Last week, Apollo astronauts, along with dozens of other Lunar Rover vets, gathered for the LRV's 40th anniversary to look back on improvising a replacement fender on the moon and to offer advice ...

"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, ...

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 ...

Rutledge Alexander Mills, known as "Putty," built two lunar rover simulators for astronaut training during the Apollo program. He rescued one of them that was headed for the trash at the end of ...

Apollo 15 launched on July 26, 1971, and became the fourth successful mission to touch down on the lunar surface. ... Apollo 15 at 50: A new rover, a 'Genesis Rock' and the first deep space EVA.

“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 ...