"Lunokhod 1 was a lunar vehicle formed of a tub-like compartment with a large convex lid on eight independently powered wheels," NASA wrote in a summary of the mission. "Lunokhod was equipped with ...

Here, Lunokhod 1 made a grand entrance ... while the temperatures dropped to as low as -133°C (-208°F). The mission was supposed to last for three lunar days, or around 88.5 Earth days.

The Lunokhod 1 retroreflector was sent aboard the unmanned Luna 17 mission, which landed on the Moon November 17, 1970, releasing a robotic rover that roamed the lunar surface. Murphy said his ...

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 ...

In fact, Torre and a colleague were ranging successfully the Apollo 15 site when Torre suggested trying Lunokhod 1. [NASA's Apollo Moon Missions in Pictures] The final end-of-mission location of ...

It’s Lunokhod 1 and the Soviets drove it around the moon ... searching for clues to the planet's watery past and potential ancient life. The mission launched in April to test a cost-effective ...

As a planetary geologist working with the Soviet Union’s remotely controlled lunar rovers — Luno­khod 1 and Lunokhod 2 — in the early 1970s, Basilevsky was constantly asking mission ...

Lunokhod 1 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard the then Soviet Union's Luna 17 mission, landing on the Moon on the 17 November 1970. The rover, about the size of a small car and ...

Contact with the rover was lost on September 14, 1971, apparently due to a component failure, and the mission officially ended on October 4. Lunokhod 1 traveled 10.5 km while roaming the surface and ...

On 17 November 1970, the Soviet Union’s Luna 17 mission touched down on the surface of the Moon. The lander carried a huge rover the size of a small car, called Lunokhod-1, which trundled off ...