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To: SunkenCiv

wonder why we don’t have dozens of robotic rovers roaming all over the moon.


11 posted on 01/30/2013 6:16:46 AM PST by fnord (My life is like the movie Willard, except with hummingbirds)
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12 posted on 01/30/2013 7:25:27 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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I read somewhere, maybe “The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal”, that the Lunar Rover were designed for unmanned operation. It never was put into practice because the systems needed for radio control was scrapped as being cost prohibitive. Still, the rover was a marvel of engineering.


15 posted on 01/30/2013 11:41:51 AM PST by NCC-1701 (The LEFT's intolerance of the RIGHT is intolerable.)
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