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 ...

NASA's First Moon Buggy Since Apollo: ... "Think of a hybrid of the Apollo style lunar rover that was driven by our astronauts and an uncrewed mobile science platform," Vanessa Wyche, ...

Intuitive Machines' lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) is not your grandfather's moon buggy. The company's Moon RACER, or Reusable Autonomous Crewed Exploration Rover, just made its public debut.

The last time anyone drove on the Moon was way back in 1972 when the astronauts of Apollo 17 took the Lunar Roving Vehicle for one last spin. Now, NASA is plotting a return to the Moon’s surface ...

Although the historic Apollo 11 mission made do with a 2.5-hour walkabout on the lunar surface, Apollo missions 15, 16, and 17 each had their own lunar buggy to drive around the moon’s powdery ...

Long term, Lunar Outpost was also selected as the primary contractor to build the next-generation moon buggy for astronauts on the Artemis missions. You care. You want to know what is really going ...

NASA's prototype for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) glows in this 2024 portrait. As NASA plans to return humans to the moon as part of the Artemis program, the space agency is looking at how to ...

Venturi Astrolab, a California start-up, is one of the companies competing to build NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle. In this photo, test drivers take the company’s FLEX rover for a ride in Death ...

Lunar Outpost’s MAPP rover, ... the U.S. has never sent a robotic rover to the moon before; the famous LRV moon buggy used during the Apollo program was controlled by astronauts sitting within ...

NASA’s First Moon Buggy Since Apollo: ... “Think of a hybrid of the Apollo style lunar rover that was driven by our astronauts and an uncrewed mobile science platform,” Vanessa Wyche, ...

Long term, Lunar Outpost was also selected as the primary contractor to build the next-generation moon buggy for astronauts on the Artemis missions. To read more stories from Colorado Public Radio ...