By Apollo 17, the LRVs took the men about 17 miles in total. So much more could be explored with this tiny rover. “The lunar rovers fulfilled the whole promise of Apollo,” Swift told me on the ...

After the first of three lunar expeditions, the fender on the right rear wheel of the Apollo XVII lunar rover broke off. “Oh, there goes a fender. Oh shoot!” commander Gene Cernan could be ...

Dave Scott, Al Worden and Jim Irwin were the crew of Apollo 15, the first mission to use the four-wheel-drive lunar rover. John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan ...