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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

At Paris Air Show, European-based space company Venturi Space unveiled MONA LUNA, a European lunar rover designed for ESA and ...

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 ...

Then Boeing turned on the sun: high-intensity xenon arc lamps in the chamber’s ceiling. In one test, the rover spun its wheels for 78 hours to simulate sorties it would make on the moon.

[Related: NASA’s quirky new lunar rover will be the first to cruise the moon’s south pole.] The last time astronauts zipped around on a moon buggy was back in 1971 during NASA’s Apollo 15 ...

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, ...