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Rover Boys; Three crews of Apollo astronauts experienced an out-of-this-world driving adventure.(Apollo Lunar Rover)
On July 30, 1971, the engineers at Boeing Aircraft watched as their company's most peculiar creation took flight. The aerospace mega-giant was best known for fabricating massive, lumbering aluminum overcasts capable of hauling a myriad of passengers or enough tonnage to bomb America's foes back into the Stone Age. But on that day 30 years ago, their new design was not soaring high and proud but bumping and skittering and clawing its way across terrain like a cockroach running from the light.
The Apollo Lunar Rover, like many NASA projects, was a pioneer in its field. An off-roader if there ever was one, the Rover came with many standard features prevalent in ...
- Michelin Teams With NASA On Lunar Rover for Inaugural Parade.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 20, 2009 700+ words
...generation of lunar rovers," said David Stafford...Small Pressurized Lunar Rover, NASA's latest...collection of moon rover vehicles. Introduced...that enables moon rovers to traverse loose...original Apollo Lunar Rover wheels. "Field...
- RadioShack to Sponsor Lunar Rover in Latest Marketing Move.(Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Godinez, Victor June 15, 2000 700+ words
...exploration start-up to put a robotic rover on the moon in 2003 sporting the...Dubbed the "Icebreaker," the lunar rover will search for ice deposits in the...to place the company logo on the rover as well as in several terrestrial...
- RadioShack to sponsor planned lunar rover.(The Dallas Morning News)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Godinez, Victor June 15, 2000 700+ words
...exploration start-up to put a robotic rover on the moon in 2003 sporting the...Dubbed the "Icebreaker," the lunar rover will search for ice deposits in the...to place the company logo on the rover as well as in several terrestrial...
- RadioShack to Sponsor Planned Lunar Rover.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Godinez, Victor June 16, 2000 700+ words
...exploration start-up to put a robotic rover on the moon in 2003 sporting the...Dubbed the "Icebreaker," the lunar rover will search for ice deposits in the...to place the company logo on the rover as well as in several terrestrial...
- Boeing to propose pair of concepts for lunar rover.
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily October 31, 1990 700+ words
...Huntsville for producing a lunar rover that could operate manually...to let an RFP for a pair of rovers between 1993 and 1995. The rover design must be ready by 1999...Robby, a $1 million robot rover vehicle designed to explore...
- lunar rover
- Reference information from: Webster's NewWorld Dictionary January 1, 1988 700+ words
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 lunar rover an electric-powered, four-wheeled, open vehicle used by astronauts to explore the surface of the moon Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- U.S. Space Camp's lunar rover to join Super Bowl festivities.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 12, 1989 700+ words
U.S. SPACE CAMP'S LUNAR ROVER TO JOIN SUPER BOWL FESTIVITIES MIAMI, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- A "moon buggy" loaned by U.S. Space Camp will carry three...
- Space entrepreneurs look to cash in on lunar exploration. (LunaCorp planning...
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily February 15, 1994 700+ words
...museums to theme parks to fund an unmanned lunar rover. If all goes according to plan, the rover will be launched in late 1997 at a cost of...LunaCorp officials say 25 percent of the rover's space will be open to use by NASA and other...