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 ...

Apollo 11 - NASA, 1969 ... their condition and also gather evidence of people looting them—such as fresh rover tracks,” said Gorman, who’s now working on heritage management guidelines ...