Moon Rover
Lunokhod 1 lunar roving vehicle (engineering model, 1970)
Two Lunokhod vehicles were sent to the Moon's surface, and remain there now. The Lunokhod vehicles were originally intended to support cosmonauts landing on the Moon. They were expected to land first, and act as a radio beacon and emergency buggy for travelling to a backup lunar lander. Their TV and photographic cameras recorded thousands of images and instruments analysed the lunar environment. During their working life on the Moon both travelled over 50 km, under the control of operators on Earth.
[Science Museum]
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).
Moon Rover
Lunokhod 1 lunar roving vehicle (engineering model, 1970)
Two Lunokhod vehicles were sent to the Moon's surface, and remain there now. The Lunokhod vehicles were originally intended to support cosmonauts landing on the Moon. They were expected to land first, and act as a radio beacon and emergency buggy for travelling to a backup lunar lander. Their TV and photographic cameras recorded thousands of images and instruments analysed the lunar environment. During their working life on the Moon both travelled over 50 km, under the control of operators on Earth.
[Science Museum]
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).