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A replica Lunar Rover is displayed at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Battery-powered four-wheeled rovers were used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program.
A replica of the Apollo 15 lunar rover will be at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Monday only. An exhibit celebrating the 50th anniversary of that mission will be in place through Saturday.
Sorato is smaller and lighter than any other lunar or Martian space-qualified rover. It was donated last October to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum by ispace, a Japan-based ...
WASHINGTON — A lunar rover changed destinations from the moon to Earth to live in the ever-popular Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Sorato is a Japanese rover that was supposed to aim ...
Students and staff from Ohio Northern University (ONU) will deliver a drivable, full-size lunar rover replica to the Armstrong Air & Space Museum on Thursday, May 5. The rover is the result of ...
The Lunar Electric Rover is a prototype for the vehicle that NASA hopes to send with astronauts to the moon by 2020. NASA. Brent Garry peers down from a National Air and Space Museum walkway at ...
Students at Carnegie Mellon University are sending America's first robotic lunar rover to the moon this May ... identical ark is currently on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
The museum views lunar landings as the leading edge of efforts to create long-term human settlements on the moon. So in addition to a test-model of a small Astrobotic lunar rover, Moonshot houses ...
On May 4, a Pennsylvania university will send the first U.S. rover to the Moon. The rover, named Iris, is record-breakingly small and lightweight, and was developed entirely by students from ...
New exhibit illustrates the story of the 1960s competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the first to reach the moon. It opens Saturday, May 20, in Seattle.
NEW YORK – A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History will highlight some of the cutting-edge space technology in hand or under way, from a rover that looks for life on Mars to an ...
Apollo 17’s lunar rover sits at its resting place at the Taurus-Littrow landing site in 1972. (NASA Photo) Three hot rods on the moon are now official Washington state historic landmarks, thanks ...