# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-05-28T20:12:42.000+00:00
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## Caption

Driving on the Moon? Hot dog! 🌭⁣

This vehicle – which looks like the front half of a famous sausage-shaped car – is one of many lunar rover concepts created for the Apollo program. Part of preparation for the missions was figuring out a design for a lunar vehicle that would allow astronauts a greater range of mobility.⁣

Designers had a lot to consider when creating a Moon rover: weak gravity, a lack of atmosphere, and extreme temperature, to name a few. These factors, frank-ly, imposed severe requirements on the vehicle. Each concept provided data that helped in designing the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) that made its debut during the Apollo 15 mission (swipe to see it).⁣

The LRV, which did not end up being glizzy-shaped, drove at a blistering 5 miles per hour (8 km per hour). Astronaut Dave Scott said of the first trip on the Moon, “This is a super way to travel … This is great … and it’s easy to drive … No problem at all.” Sounds like a bun-believable experience.⁣

During their 67-hour stay on the Moon, Scott and fellow astronaut Jim Irwin used the LRV to make three separate motor trips to explore the rim of Hadley Rille, deep crater edges, and the Apennine Mountains. The LRV more than met its goal of increasing movement, as Scott and Irwin covered almost four times as much lunar terrain as the total covered by the crews of the Apollo 11, 12, and 14 missions before them.⁣

Image descriptions:⁣
1. An astronaut stands near a lunar rover concept that looks like the front half of the Weinermobile attached by a hose to a platform with large fan-like wheels. The front half has the same wheels, as well as an open hatch on the side and small windows in the front. The photo is in black and white.⁣

2. At right, astronaut Jim Irwin works at the LRV on the Moon. The rover looks noticeably different from the concept vehicle in the previous image. It has four tires that look more like ones you’d see on a car, except they are made of wire. The high gain antenna stands out on the rover’s right side. St. George crater appears in the distance behind Irwin’s head.⁣⁣

Credit: NASA

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