Although the historic Apollo 11 mission made do with a 2.5-hour walkabout on the lunar surface, Apollo missions 15, 16, and 17 each had their own lunar buggy to drive around the moon’s powdery ...

Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 17 mission — the last one that put humans on the moon. NPR takes a look at the mission and what it means for future travel to our lunar companion.

In all, the Apollo 17 crew spent 22 hours performing three “Extravehicular Activities” – moonwalks. Challenger carried a Lunar Roving Vehicle, commonly known as a “moon buggy”.With the ...

Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan driving the Moon buggy, December 11, 1972. Photo: NASA/Harrison Schmitt President Richard Nixon was ultimately responsible for downscaling NASA’s lunar ambitions.

This moon buggy was folded up and stowed inside ... Throughout their stay on the moon, they drove more than 17 miles ... On July 31, 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts drove on the moon for the first ...

The final mission to the moon was Apollo 17. Astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt drove 22 miles in the “moon buggy,” collected 243 pounds of rocks and took 2,000 pictures during their ...

Scientists have probed tiny glass beads among NASA's Apollo 17 rock samples and found new information about the moon's ...

Intuitive Machines unveils the next generation of NASA’s moon buggy. By Andrea Leinfelder, Staff writer Nov 7, 2024. ... But Schmitt didn’t like the design used on Apollo 17.