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Apollo Lunar Rover

Apollo Lunar Rover with equipment and astronaut driving.

NASA's battery-powered Lunar Rover became the first manned vehicle to drive on the moon in 1971. The rover could carry one or two astronauts, their equipment and lunar samples.

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