Lunar rover

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The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) or lunar rover was a 4-wheeled rover used on the Moon during the last three missions (15, 16, and 17) of the Apollo program in the early 1970s. It was popularly known as the moon buggy, which was a play-on-words of the dune buggy.

The LRV could carry one or two astronauts, their equipment, and lunar samples.

The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle was an electric vehicle designed to operate in the low-gravity vacuum of the Moon and to be capable of traversing the lunar surface, allowing the Apollo astronauts to extend the range of their surface extravehicular activities. Three LRVs were used on the Moon, one on Apollo 15 by astronauts David Scott and Jim Irwin, one on Apollo 16 by John Young and Charles Duke, and one on Apollo 17 by Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt. The mission Commanders served as the drivers, occupying the left-hand seats of LRVs.

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