Lunar
Roving Vehicles and Parts
by Jerry
Lunar
Roving Vehicles and Parts
by Jerry
The LRV lookes like a go-kart with a color television that has a camera that can send photos back to Earth. It was a battery powered vehicle. It also allowed the astronauts to do three times the amount of work that they could do in the past. The LRV could go speeds of up to 10 miles per hour. The LRV was an electrical vehicle designed to operate in low gravity, vacuum of the moon and to be capable of traversing the moon's surface.
The Lunar Roving Vehicle was used to help astronauts get further than in the past. It can carry moon rocks, even large moon rocks. A rover was used on three traverses. One per day, over the three day course of each mission. The rover also took pictures of the moon. The astronauts brought the pictures back to Earth.
Lunar Roving Vehicles were used to take pictures of
the moon's surface. It also helped astronauts move to places faster. The
Lunar Roving Vehicles helps astronauts take things from the moon to the
Earth. The fourth mission was to land on the moon. One of the missions
was to get the Lunar Roving Vehicle back to earth. The fifth mission was
to
Credits:
http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/HumanExplore/Exploration/EXLibrary/docs/ApolloCat/Part1/LRV.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_rover
http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/lrv/lrv.htm
http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/readinglist.html
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/127/2