Previously, the American Apollo program used Lunar Roving Vehicles to increase ... is an unprecedented vehicle with all six wheels under independent control. Bridgestone, a tire manufacturer ...

The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP), built by Lunar Outpost, has four specialized wheels and a rocker ... model of NASA's Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV).

Apollo 15: Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, works at the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the first Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Hadley-Apennine landing site.

One example is the tyres of lunar vehicles. The Lunar Roving Vehicle, which was used in Apollo missions in the 1970s, had tyres made from zinc-coated woven steel strands 6, which could withstand ...

It's the third mission under Nasa's commercial lunar delivery programme, intended to ignite a lunar economy of competing private businesses while scouting around before astronauts show up later ...

The U.S. space agency, the primary customer on the mission, is paying for the delivery of a number of scientific instruments that will hunt for water under the lunar surface. The vehicle ...