Lunokhod 1 was the first successful rover to explore another world. It arrived on the moon on Nov. 17, 1970, upon the Luna 17 lander. Driven by remote-control operators in the Soviet Union ...

Here, Lunokhod 1 made a grand entrance, rolling down the dual ramps to make the first ever tire tracks on a body other than Earth. By today's standards, the rover was not pretty, resembling a ...

In complete secrecy, they developed a lunar vehicle named Lunokhod (also spelled Lunakhod) with the only purpose of going there and drive on the Moon. Unlike the Sputnik 1, which was just a ...

The initial imaging of the two Russian rovers, Lunokhod 1 and 2, were made earlier this year by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team, led by Mark Robinson from Arizona State ...

Scientists have successfully bounced a laser off the Soviet Union's old Lunokhod 1 rover, which trekked across the moon's landscape more than four decades ago. Lunokhod 1 was the first remote ...

Also, other things happened. While America was busy shipping humans up to the moon, Russia managed to get two robots up there, the Lunokhod 1 (pictured, in a photo apparently taken in 1904 ...

It’s Lunokhod 1 and the Soviets drove it around the moon in 1970. Lunokhod 1 was abandoned after it ran out of power up there, and the Russian space bosses didn’t have a precise record of its ...

Lunokhod 1 was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on the Moon. As part of the Soviet Union’s Lunokhod program, the rover was launched on board the Luna 17 spacecraft on November 10, 1970 ...

A rover, named Lunokhod 1, descended to the surface to take pictures and conduct experiments. It carried with it a French-made light reflector, which could be used by scientists on Earth to ...

A team of five operators in the Crimea then remotely drove the Lunokhod 1 rover (image above) down ramps protruding from the lander's sides onto the moon's dusty surface. The solar-powered (but ...