[FPSPACE] Lunakhod 3

David Anderman davida@cwo.com
Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:05:37 -0800


I believe that this same vehicle is now on display at Lavochkin. The wheels 
still work.

DWA


At 08:45 AM 11/15/2000 -0500, Larry Klaes wrote:
>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.