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The Lunar Rover was a manned land vehicle for transport on the Moon. It was transported in the Apollo Lunar Module, which was part of the Apollo spacecraft.

It was used for greater surface mobility during the Apollo program J-class missions: ( Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17). The rover was first used on July 31, 1971 during the Apollo 15 mission. This greatly expanded the range of the lunar explorers. Previous teams of astronauts were restricted to short walking distances around the landing site due to the bulky spacesuitA spacesuit is a complex system of garments, equipment, and environmental systems designed to keep a person alive and comfortable in the harsh environment of outer space. This applies to extra-vehicular activity outside spacecraft orbiting Earth and has a equipment required to sustain life in the harsh lunar environment. The rovers have a top speed of about 8 mph (12.9 km.h^-1).

They have been abandoned and thus belong to the artificial objects currently on the MoonArtificial objects on the Moon that are currently in use are retroreflectors ( Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment). The following table is a partial list of artificial objects on the surface of the Moon. They have been abandoned after having served their purp; even if they could have been carried, given the weight restraints at lift-off, taking Moon samples to Earth was more important, of course.

The Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1 also landed unmanned rovers on the Moon, named Lunokhod 1Lunokhod 1 was the first of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of its Lunokhod program. The spacecraft which carried Lunokhod 1 was named Luna 17. Lunokhod was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on anoth and Lunokhod 2Lunokhod 2 was the second of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod program. Launch Date/Time: 1973-01-08 at 06:55:38 UTC On-orbit dry mass: 4850 kg (approx. 77 nonmetric tons) The Luna 21 spacecraft lande.

See also: Manned space missions, Unmanned space missions

External links

• Boeing Lunar Rover Vehicle Operations Handbook

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