[FPSPACE] Lunakhod 1 launch and Voyager 1 Saturn flyby anniversaries

[Larry Klaes]

My strong guess would be that the image you took was
of Lunakhod 3, a real lunar rover that never made it
to Luna due to problems from the Soviets attempt to
build a Mars sample return probe in the late 1970s
to upstage the US Viking mission.  The same rover
was on display at the Boston Museum of Science in
1990.

Larry


At 12:06 AM 11/15/2000 +0100, Tristan Cools wrote:

>At 20:07 13-11-00 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>Though not widely known at the time, the Lunakhod series
>>was part of the Soviet's manned lunar program.  These
>>rovers would serve in the construction of the first
>>lunar bases.  Sadly, only one more Lunakhod made it to
>>Earth's moon and the third probe was left in a museum.
>>
>
>
>In 1987, there was a space exhibition in Brussels, Belgium where I
>photographed a Lunokhod 2.
>
>See at:
>
>http://gallery.uunet.be/tcools/satimage/images/lunokh2.JPG
>
>Is this a real flight worthy model or just a mockup ?
>
>At Le Bourget Paris, France I took a photograph of a Lunokhod 1 model.  I
>also don't know if this one was intended for launch or not.(no picture on
>my website yet).
>
>Greetings,
>
>
>Tristan Cools tcools@village.uunet.be
>Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS)
>
>Damse Vaart: 3.2478E/51.2277N - OBS place 1
>Ryckevelde:  3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2
>Brugge:      3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home)
>
>HTTP://gallery.uunet.be/tcools/satimage/index.htm
>
>
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