It was Apollo 15 the moon rover.
It was Apollo 15 the moon rover.
CHALLENGER
Apollo 15 was the first lunar landing to use the LRV, or Lunar Roving Vehicle, affectionately called the moon buggy.
The first mission to carry a teacher into space was a Challenger mission in 1986. This mission ended in tragedy when the Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch. All aboard died, including teacher, Christa McAuliffe.
The final three missions brought each a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) to the moon.
It was Apollo 15 the moon rover.
The idea for lunar roving vehicles, or moon buggies, was first published in a 1952-1954 series in Colliers Weekly Magazine. However the first functioning version of a lunar roving vehicle was produced by Boeing for the Apollo missions 15, 16, and 17. NASA had requested for them to be completed by the 1st of April 1971. The first use of the Lunar Roving vehicles was on the 31st of July 1971, on the Apollo 15 mission.
PSLV-C2 was the first Indian Expendable launch vehicle to carry and deploy more than one satellite in a mission
CHALLENGER
Apollo 15 was the first lunar landing to use the LRV, or Lunar Roving Vehicle, affectionately called the moon buggy.
The first mission to carry a teacher into space was a Challenger mission in 1986. This mission ended in tragedy when the Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch. All aboard died, including teacher, Christa McAuliffe.
The final three missions brought each a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) to the moon.
Apollo 15 was the first mission to carry the LRV, or Lunar Rover Vehicle, sometimes nicknamed the Moon Buggy.
The Apollo Mission
Ferdinand Verbiest, a member of a Jesuit mission in China, built the first steam-powered vehicle around 1672, designed as a toy for the Chinese Emperor, it being of small scale and unable to carry a driver or passenger but, quite possibly, the first working steam-powered vehicle ('auto-mobile').
The lunar roving vehicle (LVR) or the lunar rover was invented by Mieczslaw Bekker in 1965. In 1972, the first manned LRV was launched during the Apollo program.
The first LRV (lunar roving vehicle) was delivered in early 1971, after less than 18 months of development. It was used only on the final three flights, 15, 16, and 17.