Please Fasten Your Velcro Seatbelts!

It's 40 years to the day that David Scott and Jim Irwin took the first Lunar Roving Vehicle for a spin around Hadley Rille during the Apollo 15 mission, 17.25 miles traversed on the lunar surface between July 26-30th, 1971.

Designed and devoloped in only seventeen months by engineers Mieczyslaw Bekker, Eduardo San Juan and Ferenc Pavlics, these 210 kilogram, $38 million battery-powered aluminium vehicles were to be included on the last three so-called J-Class Apollo missions, greatly expanding the range of these lunar explorers.