The Soviet Union's Lunokhod 1 rover, which landed on the Moon in 1970, used metal airless tires designed to withstand the extreme lunar environment. Similarly, ...

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 ...

So far, the moon has been explored in-situ by four-wheeled rovers, starting with Russia's Lunokhod 1 that arrived on the lunar surface in 1969 and traversed about 6 miles (10 kilometers) in 10 months.

In addition to early successes such as the Soviet Lunokhod robotic rovers and the Apollo lunar rovers (basically a car for astronauts), the moon has recently been visited by Chinese and Indian rovers.

Lunokhod 1 covered a distance of 10.5 kilometers (6.5 miles) during its 322-day operational period. It returned with over 20,000 television images and 206 high-resolution panoramas that provided ...

Lunokhod 1 was an unmanned remote-controlled robot sent there by the Soviet Union. But in 1971, America sent to the moon the first Lunar Rover that an astronaut could drive.

The world's first unmanned lunar rover was the Lunokhod 1 launched by the Soviet Union. It landed in the Mare Imbrium, also called Sea of Rains, in November 1970 and worked there for about 10 months.

Lunokhod was equipped with things like antennas, four television cameras, and special extendable devices to test the lunar soil, according to a NASA summary of Russian things on the Moon.

Lunokhod 2. The Soviet space program’s second lunar rover touched down on the moon in 1973, and although it only worked for about four months, it managed to clock in 24 miles.

In a last-ditch attempt to steal the limelight from NASA’s Apollo program, Lavochkin engineers configured the Lunokhod for remote control operations. Keystone-France The Lunokhod 1 lunar rover.

The entire Lunokhod program managed just shy of 50. And they didn’t turn up until 1970, long after Neil and Buzz had already gone for a walk on the Lunar surface.