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Moon Travel ~ 1962 General Motors
🕑 Added 2020-03-17 20:45:09 +0000 UTCmore at http://quickfound.net/
1962 GM concepts for moon cars of the future.
Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_rover
Wikipedia license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
A lunar rover or Moon rover is a space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon. The Apollo Program's Lunar Roving Vehicle was driven on the Moon by members of three American crews, Apollo 15, 16, and 17. Other rovers have been partially or fully autonomous robots, such as the Soviet Union's Lunokhods and the Chinese Yutus. Three countries have had operating rovers on the Moon: the Soviet Union, the United States and China. Indian mission is en-route while Japan and Greece currently have planned missions...
Lunokhod 1 (Луноход) was the first polycrystalline-panel-powered of two robotic lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of its Lunokhod program after a previous unsuccessful attempt of a launch probe with Lunokhod 0 (No.201) in 1969... The spacecraft soft-landed on the Moon in the Sea of Rains on November 1970. Lunokhod was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another celestial body. Having worked for 11 months, Lunokhod 1 held the durability record for space rovers for more than 30 years, until a new record was set by the Mars Exploration Rovers...
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon during the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972. The LRV could carry one or two astronauts, their equipment, and lunar samples. Georg von Tiesenhausen is credited with submitting the original design, before it was sent to Boeing for implementation...
Lunokhod 2 was the second and a monocrystalline-panel-powered of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod program. The Luna 21 spacecraft landed on the Moon and deployed the second Soviet lunar rover Lunokhod 2 in January 1973. The objectives of the mission were to collect images of the lunar surface, examine ambient light levels to determine the feasibility of astronomical observations from the Moon, perform laser ranging experiments, observe solar X-rays, measure local magnetic fields, and study the soil mechanics of the lunar surface material...
Yutu
Yutu is a Chinese lunar rover which launched on 1 December 2013 and landed on 14 December 2013 as part of the Chang'e 3 mission. It is China's first lunar rover, part of the second phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program undertaken by China National Space Administration (CNSA). The lunar rover is called Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, a name selected in an online poll.
The rover encountered operational difficulties after the first 14-day lunar night, and was unable to move after the end of the second lunar night, finally on August 3, 2016 it officially stopped sending data and doing its operations...
Yutu-2 (Chang'e 4 rover)
Chinese mission launched 7 December 2018, landed and deployed rover 3 January 2019 on the far side of the Moon...
Planned missions
ECA
Axiom Research Labs (formerly Team Indus) signed a working agreement with OrbitBeyond to further develop the Indian HHK1 lander and rover, and the lander was renamed Z-01.[5] ECA (short for 'Ek Choti Si Asha', a small hope) is a rover originally developed by Team Indus for the now cancelled Google Lunar X Prize. It is expected that the Z-01 lander will deliver the ECA rover in 2020.[6]
Carnegie Mellon Rover
Astrobotic Technology, a private company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, plans to send a CubeRover rover created by students at Carnegie Mellon University to the Moon in 2021.
VIPER
NASA's VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) will explore the south polar region of the Moon for water ice. The mission plan is to travel several miles over 100 days and employ a 1-meter drill to obtain samples for its onboard analyzers. The rover will be landed on the Moon as early as December 2022.
Asagumo
The Asagumo rover weighs just 1.3 kg and, instead of wheels, is equipped with four legs to walk the moon's surface to collect the data from Lidar and other equipment. The robot will eventually be able to explore the "Lunar lava tubes". The rover will be landed on the Moon as early as July 2021...
