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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 (15,...
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    will be the first crewed lunar rover developed by NASA since the Lunar Roving Vehicle used during the Apollo program. On February 6, 2020, NASA issued...
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    lunar rover or Moon rover is a space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon. The Apollo program's Lunar Roving Vehicle was...
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    that included three days on the lunar surface, expanded scientific capability, and the use of the third Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). Cernan and Schmitt landed...
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    instrument upside down and both on and off the lunar roving vehicle. 6 measurements were taken at the Lunar module landing site with 11 measurements taken...
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    Apollo 15 Lunar Module Falcon lifts off from the Moon, August 2, 1971. View from TV camera on the Lunar Roving Vehicle. Apollo 15 Lunar Module liftoff...
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    carried away from the LM to show the EVA's progress; or, mounted on a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), where it could be remotely controlled from Mission Control...
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    Apollo 16 (redirect from Lunar Module Orion)
    missions", with an extended stay on the lunar surface, a focus on science, and the use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). The landing and exploration were...
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    Apollo 15 saw the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle. The mission began on July 26 and ended on August 7, with the lunar surface exploration taking place...
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    two-man landing missions, twelve men walked on the lunar surface, six of whom drove Lunar Roving Vehicles as part of the last three missions. Three men have...
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    1969, atop a Saturn V launch vehicle from Launch Complex 39A, and entered Earth orbit 12 minutes later. Eagle entered lunar orbit on July 19, 1969. On July...
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    Rover (space exploration) (category Off-road vehicles)
    September 14, 1971. Having worked for 11 months, NASA included Lunar Roving Vehicles in three Apollo missions: Apollo 15 (which landed on the Moon July...
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    portal Apollo program Lunar laser ranging experiment Hexanitrostilbene, a vacuum stable explosive used in the ALSEP. Lunar Roving Vehicle List of artificial...
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    their full funding is unclear: Soviet crewed lunar programs – The Soviet Union had been pursuing a crewed lunar flyby mission using Soyuz 7K-L1 launched aboard...
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    United States Apollo Lunar Modules flown on lunar landing missions Apollo 11 through Apollo 17, to be left permanently on the lunar surface. The plaques...
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    15's mission was changed to be the first to employ the motorized Lunar Roving Vehicle, which transported both astronauts and equipment. Astronauts nicknamed...
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    AS15-82-11121: Apollo 15 Lunar Roving Vehicle AS15-82-11122: Apollo 15 photo 3D SELENE reconstructed photo The light-colored area of blown lunar surface dust created...
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    practiced on Earth how to arrange themselves, the flag, and the Lunar Roving Vehicle around the LM for the best photography. The flag deployed during...
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    outgrowth of the Lunar Flying Vehicle by Bell Aerospace (a lunar surface mobility design that was cancelled in favor of the less risky Lunar Rover). As NASA...
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    IM-1 (redirect from Odysseus (lunar lander))
    was a lunar mission that was carried out jointly by a partnership between the NASA CLPS program and Intuitive Machines (IM), using an Nova-C lunar lander...
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    Lunar soil is the fine fraction of lunar regolith found on the surface of the Moon and contributes to the Moon's tenuous atmosphere. Lunar soil differs...
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  • managed the development of the F-1 and J-2 engines as well as the Lunar Roving Vehicle. Morea was born and raised in Queens in what he has referred to as...
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    the Moon for over three days. These missions would also carry the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) increasing the exploration area and allowing televised liftoff...
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    Scott and Apollo Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin, who used the first Lunar Roving Vehicle to make three exploratory trips away from their landing site at the...
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    passenger on the Moon as Scott drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) carried along for this mission in the lunar module (LM) Falcon's Descent Stage. Scott...
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  • was Mars Observer, in 1985. Lunar Observer (LO), proposed for a 1997 launch, would have been sent into a long-term lunar orbit at 60 miles above the Moon's...
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    Seatbelt basalt (category Lunar samples)
    commander, David Scott, noticed it on the surface while driving the Lunar Roving Vehicle and stopped to collect it, but said to mission control that he was...
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  • rendezvous with other components in Earth orbit to assemble a lunar flyby excursion vehicle. The components would then be delivered by the proven middle-sized...
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    The Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment (LEAM) was a lunar science experiment that flew to the Moon on board Apollo 17 in 1972. It collected information...
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    area. Other activities included driving a training version of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), and collecting geological samples. A final geological field...
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