Lunokhod 1 was the first successful rover to explore another world. It arrived on the moon on Nov. 17, 1970, upon the Luna 17 lander. Driven by remote-control operators in the Soviet Union ...

Here, Lunokhod 1 made a grand entrance, rolling down the dual ramps to make the first ever tire tracks on a body other than Earth. By today's standards, the rover was not pretty, resembling a ...

In complete secrecy, they developed a lunar vehicle named Lunokhod (also spelled Lunakhod) with the only purpose of going there and drive on the Moon. Unlike the Sputnik 1, which was just a ...

The initial imaging of the two Russian rovers, Lunokhod 1 and 2, were made earlier this year by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team, led by Mark Robinson from Arizona State ...

It’s Lunokhod 1 and the Soviets drove it around the moon in 1970. Lunokhod 1 was abandoned after it ran out of power up there, and the Russian space bosses didn’t have a precise record of its ...

Lunokhod 1 was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on the Moon. As part of the Soviet Union’s Lunokhod program, the rover was launched on board the Luna 17 spacecraft on November 10, 1970 ...

Also, other things happened. While America was busy shipping humans up to the moon, Russia managed to get two robots up there, the Lunokhod 1 (pictured, in a photo apparently taken in 1904 ...

Scientists have successfully bounced a laser off the Soviet Union's old Lunokhod 1 rover, which trekked across the moon's landscape more than four decades ago. Lunokhod 1 was the first remote ...

A rover, named Lunokhod 1, descended to the surface to take pictures and conduct experiments. It carried with it a French-made light reflector, which could be used by scientists on Earth to ...

A team of five operators in the Crimea then remotely drove the Lunokhod 1 rover (image above) down ramps protruding from the lander's sides onto the moon's dusty surface. The solar-powered (but ...